This thesis investigates the types of commercial and industrial activities that would best expand and stabilize the economic base of Palmdale and the surrounding region. There are two objectives. The first is an economic assessment of Palmdale reveali . . .

Acoustic subbottom profiles, in conjunction with onshore geological data and limited bottom samples were analyzed to determine the geology and Quaternary evolution of the inner basin margin between Dana Point and San Onofre, California. Structural fea . . .

Late-early and middle Eocene beds of the Maniobra Formation in the northeastern Orocopia Mountains, southern California are 1,460 m thick and consist predominantly of cobble-boulder conglomerate, mudstone, and sandstone. These beds lie unconformably a . . .

The San Pedro basin margin is a relatively wide platform located southeast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula and the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor. A departure from the normally narrow Southern California inner basin margins, the configuration of this are . . .

Mugu Lagoon, a small coastal water body on th Oxnard Plain, is one of the few lagoons along the southern California coast that remains in a relatively natural state. The eastern arm of the lagoon is divided into three parts: western extension, central . . .

Mapping in the Nelson Range and the adjacent southeastern Inyo Mountains shows that this area has experienced at least two episodes of early Mesozoic deformation which produced two sets of folds in Mississippian through Permian rocks. A later Mesozoic . . .

The Vaqueros Formation (Oligocene-lower Miocene) along upper Sespe Creek in Ventura County, California, is a transgressive marine sequence overlying the Sespe Formation and underlying the Rincon and Monterey Formations. The Vaqueros is exposed in a na . . .

Eastern Sierran wall rocks in the central portion of the Slate Range have undergone several phases of Mesozoic deformation resulting in the folding and faulting of Permian (?) - Triassic (?) metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks. Additionally, five p . . .

The Vaqueros Formation (Oligocene- lower Miocene), exposed in a northward-dipping homocline in the Big Mountain area, Ventura County, California, is a transgressive-regressive sequence which conformably overlies the Sespe Formation and is unconformabl . . .

The geology and alteration in the Drum Mountains, Utah are very similar to productive metal districts as Carlin, Cortez, Tintic and Ely. Gold-bearing jasperoids and potential mineralization at depth near the limestone-quartzite contact have become exc . . .