Interesting Links to Websites

Links to Interesting Websites

Geology Links

Balanced Cross Sections (Davis & Namson)

California Fossil Collecting Localities

Earthquakes and Faults

Fossil and Evolution Links

Geology Links (this is great site!)

Gold Mining

La Brea Tar Pits (Page Museum)

Plate Tectonics

Recent Earthquakes

Rockhound Links

San Joaquin Valley Geology

Satellite Images - Outer Space (from JPL)

Satellite Images - The Visible Earth (from NASA)

Sequence Stratigraphy Links

Shark Tooth Hill

Tar and Oil Seeps

Volcanoes

World of Oil (Paleontological research Insitution)

History Links

Drake Well Museum (in Titusville, Pennsylvania)

Early California Oil Industry by Bruce Petty

Index to early Petroleum History Sites

Oil History by Samuel T. Pees (Pennsylvania Oil History)

Oil History and Geology of the Newhall Oil District by Stan Walker

Petroleum History Institute

Spindletop - Gladys Town Boomtown Museum

Story of Oil in California (Paleontological research Insitution)

Geologic Societies

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

Pacific Section of AAPG

Alaska Geological Society

American Petroleum Institute (API)

San Joaquin Valley Chapter of API

Association of Engineering Geologists (AEG)

Association of Women Geologists (AWG)

California Well Sample Repository (CWSR)

Coast Geological Society (CGS)

Dibblee Foundation

Geological Society of America (GSA)

Houston Geological Society (HGS)

Los Angeles Basin Geological Society

Northern California Geological Society

Northwest Energy Association

Pacific Section of AAPG

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG)

San Joaquin Geological Society (SJGS)

Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)

Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

Los Angeles Basin Chapter of SPE

San Joaquin Valley Chapter of SPE

Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA)

San Joaquin Well Logging Society (SJWLS)

South Coast Geological Society

Well Sample Repository

Local Colleges with Geology Departments

Cal State Bakersfield (CSUB) Geology Department

Cal State Fresno (CSUF) Geology Department

Cal State Northridge (CSUN) Geology Department

Santa Barbara City College Geology Department

Univ. of Calif. at Santa Barbara (UCSB) Geology Department

Museums with Oil and/or Geology Exhibits

Buena Vista Museum of Natural History - Bakersfield
(Miocene Fossils from Shark Tooth Hill)

Field Trips

California Oil Museum - Santa Paula
(Oil Industry of Ventura County)

Carpinteria Valley Museum of History - Carpinteria
(Carpinteria Tar Pits)

Kern County Museum - Bakersfield
(Oil Industry of Kern County)

Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries - Los Angeles
(La Brea Tar Pits)

R.C. Baker Memorial Museum - Coalinga
(History of Coalinga Field)

West Kern Oil Museum - Taft
(McKittrick Tar Pits & History of Midway-Sunset Field)

Government Agencies

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - Bakersfield Office

California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR)
- They used to call it the "DOG"

DOGGR Interactive Well Map

DOGGR Online Production Data

DOGGR Online Logs & Well Histories

DOGGR Publications FTP Site

DOGGR Well Surface Location Databases

California Geological Survey (formerly Division of Mines and Geology)

Department of Energy (DOE)

Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC)

West Coast PTTC

U. S. Geological Survey (USGS)