Geologic Information

Geologic Information About California
Daily Earthquake Activity
Owens (Dry) Lake, California: A Human-Induced Dust Problem
Natural Oil and Gas Seeps in California

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Current Mono Basin Research

• Ash beds of Paoha Island
  Mike Perkins, University of Utah


• Climatic and hydrologic oscillations in the Owens and Mono Lake basins, California
  L V. Benson (USGS), James W. Burdett (Cornell), Michaele Kashgarian (Lawrence Livermore), Steve P. Lund (USC), Joseph P. Smoot (USGS), Scott Mensing (UNR), Robert O. Rye (USGS), and Tim P. Rose (Lawrence Livermore)


• Evolution of desert colluvial boulder fields, Eastern California
  Donald A. Friend, Mankato State University


• Geologic map of Paoha Island (USGS)
  Marcus Bursik, University of Buffalo


• Geomicrobiology associated with tufa tower formation
  Jack Farmer and Mike Thomas, Arizona State University


• Migration rates of dunes in the Mono lake dune field
  Lori K. Fenton, Post Doctorate Research Associate, ASU Dept. of Geological Sciences
  Spatial and temporal variations in the Mono Lake dune field indicate possible shifts in wind circulation patterns driven by climate fluctuations


• Mono Basin geomorphology, sedimentology, biogeography, and paleoclimatology
  Scott Stine, California State University Hayward


• Paleoclimate and geochronology of Mono Lake: Revised chronology and paleoclimatic records of the late pleistocene Wilson Creek formation, Mono Lake (CA)
  Susan Zimmerman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory


• Paleomagnetic/Paleoceanographic/Paleoclimatic studies of late quaternary sediments from the western Unites States - the marine California continental borderland and lakes of California/Nevada (search the page for "mono")
  Steve Lund (Geophysics, USC) , Owen Davis (University of Arizona), Larry Benson (USGS-Water Resources), and Joe Smoot (USGS-Geological Division)


• A stratigraphic study of the 610 A.D. eruption of the Mono Craters
  Dr. Kerry Sieh, Matthew Dawson, Aron Meltzner, CalTech