Related Web Sites

• U.S. Geological Survey http://www.usgs.gov
• California Department of Conservation http://www.consrv.ca.gov/index.htm
• The Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits http://www.tarpits.org/
• The Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/quaternary/labrea.html

Recommended Reading

• Hodgson, S.F., 1987, Onshore oil and gas seeps in California: California Department of Conservation, Division of Oil and Gas, Publication No. TR26, 97 p.
• Lillis, P.G., Magoon, L.B., Stanley, R.G., McLaughlin, and Warden, A., 1999, Characterization of northern California petroleum by stable carbon isotopes: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-164, 19 p. Available online at: http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/energy/OF99-164/OF99-164.pdf
• Lorenson, T.D., McLaughlin, R.J., Kvenvolden, K.A., Orange, D.L., Davisson, M.L., Brewer, P.G., and Martin, J.B., 1998, Comparison of offshore and onshore gas occurrences, Eel River basin, Northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-781.
• Magoon, L.B., and Isaacs, C.M., 1983, Chemical characteristics of some crude oils from the Santa Maria basin, California, in Isaacs, C.M., and Garrison, R.E., eds., Petroleum generation and occurrence in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: Pacific Section, SEPM, p. 201-211.
• Stanley, R.G., and Lillis, P.G., Oil-bearing rocks of the Davenport and Point Reyes areas and their implications for offset along the San Gregorio and northern San Andreas faults, in Bokelmann, Götz, and Kovach, R.L, ed., Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Tectonic Problems of the San Andreas Fault System. http://pangea.stanford.edu/GP/sanandreas2000/index.html (last article)
  
  
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