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    • 2013 GSA Cordilleran Conference Presentations
      • Early Tertiary Climate Change and its Impact on the Matrix Mineralogy of “auriferous gravels” in the Sierra Nevada Foothills
      • The Nature of Early Tertiary Soils and Sediments — Mineralogy and Petrology
      • Geologic Hazards in the Early Tertiary Sediments of the Sierra Nevada Foothills of California
      • Landslide Hazards Along the Interstate 80 Corridor Associated with the Early Oligocene Sedimentary and Volcanic Deposits in the Sierra Nevada
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      • The Upper Reaches of the Sierra Nevada Auriferous Gold Channels
      • Geology of the Ione Formation in the Ione Area
      • A Historical Review Of The Age Assignments Applied To The Chalk Bluff Fossil Plant Assemblage, Central Sierra Nevada
      • Gold Bearing Gravels of the Ancestral Yuba River, Sierra Nevada
      • Re-evaluation of the origin of kaolinite in the Ione Formation
      • Geology and Ceramic Properties of the Ione Formation, Buena Vista Area
      • A Middle Eocene Flora From The Central Sierra Nevada
      • Origin of gold in placer deposits of the Sierra Nevada Foothills, California
      • The Ione Formation of California
    • Geologic hazards associated with Eocene and Oligocene Sedimentary Units in the Sierra Nevada Foothills
      • CGS Geologic Hazard Notice — Smectitic Sediments
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Field Trips

Fieldtrips in the central Sierra Nevada

A Geologic Excursion to the Geology of the Central Sierra Metamorphic Belt on the Amador Central Railroad

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