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The Ventura Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. (VGMS)

Library Catalogue Page.

Updated November 14, 2011.

The VGMS Library.

Procedures for Checking Out Books.

Our books are located in the library/meeting room at our Camp Comfort clubhouse, where they are sorted on shelves by broad categories and then alphabetically by author. Print copies of this catalogue will be at our monthly club meetings, and it is also posted on our VGMS web site (www.vgms.org). Our check-out procedures are on the honor system. If you wish to borrow a book, use the log in the binder on the table in the clubhouse library room. Record your name, the book/s you've borrowed, and the dates you've checked them out and then returned them. You can visit the library and check out books during our workshop days (the third Saturday morning of each month), or, if you see a title of interest on the list, just alert our club librarian (Jim Brace-Thompson, 805-659-3577, jbraceth@roadrunner.com), and he can hand-deliver it to you at the next club meeting. Please provide at least one week advance notice.

Table of Contents.

NOTE: RED (not counting links) means a new listing as of November 14, 2011.

From the Webmaster: Since I don't know where you might end up in the list I also don't really know where to put links back to the Table of Contents. Sooo, I have decided to not give you any links. Use your browser's BACK button to get back here. If, for some reason, that doesn't work you can always scroll back. Note: The PageUp Button goes faster.

More from the Webmaster: While doing the August 26th update I decided to try something new. Some of the book names are very similar to the names of other books. Notice that the individual book listings are now numbered. If you want to refer someone to a particular listing you can simply use the list heading or sub-heading and the number of the book.


California.
  1. Allen, Common Intertidal Invertebrates of Southern California, 1969.
  2. Allison, et al., Pacific Slope Geology of Northern Baja California and Adjacent Alta California, 1970.
  3. Almgren & Hacker, Paleogene Submarine Canyons of the Sacramento Valley, California, Pacific Section AAPG Symposium, 1984.
  4. American Automobile Association, The Mother Lode, 1987.
  5. Bailey, Geology of Northern California, Bulletin 190, 1966.
  6. Baldwin, Turbidite Features in the Pico Formation (Pliocene) at Santa Paula Creek, California, 1987 (brief article in folder).
  7. Baylor, California Rocks: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Golden State, 2010 (2 copies).
  8. Berkholz, Treasure Map of the Great Mojave Desert, 1958 (map, in folder).
  9. Bowen & Gray, Limestone & Dolomite in the Northern Gabilan Range,California, 1959.
  10. Bremner, Geology of Santa Cruz Island, Santa Barbara County, California, 1932.
  11. Brown & Allan, Rocks & Minerals of California & Their Stories, 1955 (2 copies).
  12. Brown, Allan, & Stark, Rocks & Minerals of California, Third Revised Edition, 1987.
  13. Butler, Rockhounding California, 1995 (2 copies).
  14. Butler, The Rockhound’s Guide to California, 1995.
  15. Buwalda, New Mammalian Faunas from Miocene Sediments near Tehachapi Pass in the Southern Sierra Nevada, 1916.
  16. Chalfant, Death Valley: The Facts, 1936.
  17. Chesterman, Nephrite in Marin County, California, 1951.
  18. Clark & Rietman, Oligocene Stratigraphy, Tectonics, & Paleogeography Southwest of the San Andreas Fault, Santa Cruz Mountains Gabilan Range, California Coast Ranges, 1973.
  19. Clark & Woodford, The Geology & Paleontology of the Type Section of the Meganos Formation (Lower Middle Eocene) of California, 1927.
  20. Collins, Camino Cielo Field Trip, 1971 (2 copies).
  21. Crippen, Nephrite Jade & Associated Rocks of the Cape San Martin Region, Monterey County, California, 1951.
  22. Crowell & Link, Geologic History of Ridge Basin, Southern California, 1982.
  23. Davis, The Franciscan Sandstone, 1918.
  24. Department of Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara City College, Fossil Identification Key for Selected Cenozoic Fossils, Isla Vista Beach Area, Santa Barbara County, California, no date (2 copies).
  25. Dibblee, Geology of the Fremont Peak & Opal Mountain Quadrangles, California, 1968.
  26. Dibblee, Geology of the Willow Springs & Rosamond Quadrangles, California, 1963.
  27. Downs, Fossil Vertebrates of Southern California, 1968 (3 copies).
  28. Edwards, et al., Soil Survey of the Ventura Area, California, 1970.
  29. Estavillo, Gems & Minerals of California: A Guide to Localities, 2007 printing.
  30. Ferry, The Death Trap of the Ages, no date (article on Rancho La Brea in folder).
  31. Field, et al., Quaternary Depositional Environments of the Pacific Coast, 1980.
  32. Field Trip Articles (in binder; miscellaneous articles from issues of Gems & Minerals, The Desert Magazine, and Oregon Coast, most from the early 1960s).
  33. Gaskin, Geologic Excursions in the Eastern Mojave Desert, 1988.
  34. Gastil, et al., Geology of Peninsular California, 1974.
  35. Geologic Map of California: Bakersfield Sheet.
  36. Geologic Map of California: Death Valley Sheet.
  37. Geologic Map of California: Fresno Sheet.
  38. Geologic Map of California: Kingman Sheet (index only).
  39. Geologic Map of California: Los Angeles.
  40. Geologic Map of California: San Bernardino.
  41. Geologic Map of California: Trona Sheet.
  42. Glazner & Stock, Geology Underfoot in Yosemite National Park, 2010.
  43. Graham, Field Guide to the Mesozoic-Cenozoic Convergent Margin of Northern California, 1981.
  44. Graham, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Field Guide 4, Tertiary and Quaternary Geology of the Salinas Valley and Santa Lucia Range, Monterey County, California, 1979.
  45. Hanley, Economic Geology of the Rincon Pegmatites, San Diego County, California, 1951.
  46. Hanna, Geology of the La Jolla Quadrangle, California, 1926.
  47. Harden, California Geology, 1998.
  48. Harz, Santa Barbara Formation, no date (in binder, with plates of microfossils).
  49. Henry, California Gem Trails, Third Edition, 1957 (2 copies).
  50. Hill, Structure of the San Gabriel Mountains, North of Los Angeles, California, 1930.
  51. Hilton, Dinosaurs & Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California, 2003.
  52. Howell, Aspects of the Geologic History of the California Continental Borderland, 1976.
  53. Hutton, Mineralogy of Beach Sands between Half Moon and Monterey Bays, California, 1959.
  54. Iacopi, Earthquake Country: How, Why & Where Earthquakes Strike in California, 1964.
  55. Ingles, Mammals of California & Its Coastal Waters, 1954.
  56. Jaeger, Desert Wild Flowers, 1940/41.
  57. Jaeger, Our Desert Neighbors, 1950.
  58. Jahns, Geology of Southern California, Bulletin 170, Chapter VIII: Mineral Deposits & Mineral Industry, 1954 (2 copies).
  59. Jenkins, Geology of Southern California, Bulletin 170, Volume 1, 1954.
  60. Jenkins, Miocene Invertebrates from the Calico Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, 1986.
  61. Johnson, California-Nevada Ghost Town Atlas, 1967.
  62. Johnson, Gem Hunters Atlas: California-Nevada, 1959.
  63. Keller, et al., Field Trip Guidebook: Earthquake Hazard of the Santa Barbara Fold Belt, California, 1995 (2 copies).
  64. Keller, et al., Quarternary Stratigraphy, Soil Geomorphology, Chronology & Tectonics of the Ventura, Ojai, & Santa Paula Areas, Western Transverse Ranges, California, 1981.
  65. Kleinpell, et al., The Miocene Stratigraphy of California Revisited, also Pliocene Stratigraphy of California (by Haller), 1980.
  66. Lawson, The Geomorphic Features of the Middle Kern, 1906.
  67. Lawson, The Geomorphology of the Tehachapi Valley System, 1906.
  68. Lawson & Palache, The Berkeley Hills: A Detail of Coast Range Geology, 1902.
  69. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, La Brea Fossils: A Study Guide for School Classes, no date.
  70. Mackevett, Geology of the Jurupa Mountains, San Bernardino & Riverside Counties, California, 1951.
  71. McPhee, Assembling California, 1993.
  72. Miller, "A Geologic Section Across the Southern Peninsular Range of California," in California Journal of Mines & Geology, April 1935.
  73. Miller, Crystalline Rocks of Southern California, 1946.
  74. Mitchell, History of Research at Sharktooth Hill, Kern County, California, 1965.
  75. Mitchell, Gem Trails of California, Expanded Revised Edition, 1986.
  76. Mitchell, Gem Trails of Northern California, 1995.
  77. Mitchell, Gem Trails of Northern California, Expanded Revised Edition, 2005.
  78. Mitchell, Gem Trails of Southern California, 1996.
  79. Mitchell, Gem Trails of Southern California, Expanded Revised Edition, 2003.
  80. Moody, Fauna of the Fernando of Los Angeles, 1916.
  81. Mulqueen, Geology of Searles Valley, San Bernardino and Inyo Counties, California, 1996.
  82. Murdoch & Webb, Mineral Distribution in California by Counties (typed list in folder; 2 copies).
  83. Murdoch & Webb, Minerals of California, Bulletin 173, 1956 (3 copies).
  84. Murdoch & Webb, Supplement to Minerals of California, for 1955 Through 1957, 1960.
  85. Murdoch & Webb, Supplement 2 to Minerals of California for 1958 Through 1961, 1964.
  86. Murphey, Indian Uses of Native Plants, 1959.
  87. Oberhansley, Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park, California, 1946 (2 copies).
  88. Pabst, Minerals of California, Bulletin 113, 1938 (2 copies).
  89. Parrish & Fritsche, Field Trip Guide: Sespe Creek Area, Northern Ventura County, California, 1982/85.
  90. Pittman, Roadside History of California, 1995.
  91. Powell/Diamond Dan, Minerals from California, 2011 (3 copies).
  92. Preston, California Ghost Towns/Sites Then & Now, Northern Edition, 2002.
  93. Preston, California Ghost Towns/Sites Then & Now, Southern Edition, 2002.
  94. Reiche, Geology of Part of the Delta-Mendota Canal near Tracy, California, 1950.
  95. Resource Management Agency, County of Ventura, Environmental Impact Report: Simi Valley Landfill Expansion (brief report in folder; includes limited info on fossils of Simi Valley).
  96. Robinson & Robinson, Beasts of the Tar Pits, 1961 (2 copies).
  97. Rock & Gem magazine, February 2011, articles on Minerals of California and the Benitoite Mine.
  98. Schulz & Wallace, The San Andreas Fault, no date.
  99. Scott, The Death Valley Story, 1957.
  100. Sharp, Coastal Southern California: K/H Geology Field Guide Series, 1978.
  101. Sharp, Geology Field Guide to Southern California, 1972.
  102. Sharp, Southern California: K/H Geology Field Guide Series, 1975/76 (2 copies).
  103. Sharp & Glazner, Geology Underfoot in Death Valley & Owens Valley, 1997 (2 copies).
  104. Sharp & Glazner, Geology Underfoot in Southern California, 1993.
  105. Sibley, La Brea Story, 1969.
  106. Smith, Our Desert Flora, 1965.
  107. Southern California Paleontological Society, Paleontological Tour of the Mojave Desert, California-Nevada, 1980 (in a binder).
  108. Shields Date Gardens, Coachella Valley Desert Trails: The Salton Sea Saga & The Romance & Sex Life of the Date, 1957.
  109. Stock, Rancho La Brea: A Record of Pleistocene Life in California, Revised Edition, 1942.
  110. Stock, Rancho La Brea: A Record of Pleistocene Life in California, Fifth Edition, 1953.
  111. Stock, Rancho La Brea: A Record of Pleistocene Life in California, Sixth Edition, 1956/1968.
  112. Strong, Desert Gem Trails, 1971 (3 copies).
  113. Sullivan, Lower Tertiary Nannoplankton from the California Coast Ranges, 1965.
  114. Trask, Geology of Point Sur Quadrangle, California, 1926.
  115. Troxel & Morton, Mines and Mineral Resources of Kern County, California, 1962.
  116. United States Borax & Chemical Corporation, Borax for a Fact, 1976.
  117. U.S. Department of Interior, Death Valley National Monument, California & Nevada, 1958.
  118. The Vug Quarterly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 4, special issue on "San Benito Minerals of California".
  119. The Vug Quarterly Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 1, special issue on "California Minerals".
  120. Walker, et al., Radioactive Deposits in California, 1956.
  121. Wheelock, Desert Peaks Guide, Part I, 1964.
  122. Whistler, Field Guide to the Geology of Red Rock Canyon & the Southern El Paso Mountains, Mojave Desert, California, 1987.
  123. Williams & Graham, Monterey Formation and Associated Coarse Clastic Rocks, Central San Joaquin Basin, California, 1982.
  124. Woodford, The Catalina Metamorphic Facies of the Franciscan Series, 1924.
  125. Woodford & Bailey, Northwestern Continuation of the San Onofre Breccia, 1928.
  126. Woodford & Harris, Geology of Blackhawk Canyon, San Bernardino Mountains, California, 1928.
  127. Yoder & Chesterman, Jadeite of San Benito County, California, 1951.

Children's Books & Kids' Activities.
  1. Brace-Thompson, AFMS Future Rockhounds of America Badge Program Manual, 2004, 2008.
  2. Buxton & Provenzo, Teaching Science in Elementary & Middle School, 2007.
  3. Dace, The Rock Lady Presents: A Natural Science Project Using "Rocks", 1995.
  4. Evans, The Boys' Book of Rocks & Fossils, 1961
  5. Gallup, Stone Crazy, 2007.
  6. Hendrickson, Hunt for the Past: My Life as an Explorer, 2001.
  7. Karwoski & Downey, Julie the Rockhound, 2007.
  8. Larson & Donnan, Bones Rock! Everything You Need to Know to Be a Paleontologist, 2004.
  9. Walker, Fossils, 2007 (The Early Bird Earth Science Series).
  10. Walker, Rocks, 2007 (The Early Bird Earth Science Series).

Earth Sciences.
  1. Ambassador College, Truth About Earthquakes, 1961/1965.
  2. Carey, What's So Great About Granite? 2009.
  3. Collier, Over the Coasts: An Aerial View of Geology, 2009.
  4. Cvancara, A Field Manual for the Amateur Geologist: Tools & Activities for Exploring Our Planet, 1985.
  5. Daley, Higham, & Matthias, Earth Science: A Study of a Changing Planet, 1986.
  6. Dana, Manual of Geology, Second Edition, 1876.
  7. Dixon & Bernor, The Practical Geologist, 1992.
  8. Editors of Time-Life Books, Planet Earth, an 11-volume series with the following titles:
         Arid Lands, 1984;
         Atmosphere, 1983;
         Continents in Collision, 1983;
         Earthquake, 1982;
         Flood, 1982;
         Gemstones, 1983;
         Glacier, 1982;
         Ice Ages, 1983;
         Noble Metals, 1984;
         Underground Worlds, 1982;
         Volcano, 1982.
  9. Flint, Glacial and Quaternary Geology, 1971.
  10. Foster, Strange Genius: The Life of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, 1994.
  11. Goguel, Tectonics, 1962.
  12. Gordon (ed.), Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1993.
  13. Gray, et al., Powers of Nature, 1978.
  14. Gregory & Goudie, The SAGE Handbook of Geomorphology, 2011.
  15. Griggs & Gilchrist, Geologic Hazards, Resources, & Environmental Planning, Second Edition, 1983.
  16. Lambert, The Field Guide to Geology, Updated Edition, 1998.
  17. Lauber, Science Book of Volcanoes, 1965/1980.
  18. Luhr, Smithsonian Earth: The Definitive Visual Guide to Our Planet, 2005 (on oversized shelf).
  19. MacDonald & Hubbard, Volcanoes of the National Parks in Hawaii, 1961.
  20. Marler, The Story of Old Faithful, 1961.
  21. Mathews, The Night the Mountains Moved, 1960 (1959 Montana earthquake).
  22. Michel & Larvor, The Restless Earth: The Secrets of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, & Continental Drift in Three-Dimensional Moving Pictures, 1989.
  23. Moore, Introduction to Historical Geology, 1949.
  24. Moore & Nicholas, Speleology: The Study of Caves, 1964.
  25. National Bureau of Standards, A Walk Through Time, no date.
  26. National Geographic, June 1958, "A New Volcano from the Atlantic".
  27. National Geographic, January 1981, "Mount Saint Helens".
  28. National Geographic, December 1981, "Mount Saint Helens Aftermath".
  29. National Geographic, May 2010, "Mount Saint Helens: New Life in the Blast Zone".
  30. Spall, ed., Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Vol. 18, No. 1, issue devoted to Hawaii, 1986.
  31. Spall, ed., Earthquake Information Bulletin, Vol. 16, No. 1, issue devoted to Mt. St. Helens, 1984.
  32. Sullivan, Continents in Motion: The New Earth Debate, Second Edition, 1991.
  33. Summerfield, Global Geomorphology, 1991.
  34. Thornbury, Principles of Geomorphology, Second Edition, 1969.
  35. Thurman, Introductory Oceanography, Fourth Edition, 1985.
  36. Tilling, et al., Eruptions of Hawaiian Volcanoes: Past, Present, & Future, 1987 (2 copies).
  37. Tilling, Eruptions of Mount St. Helens: Past, Present, & Future, 1987.
  38. Tilling, Volcanoes, no date.
  39. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mount St. Helens Recovery, 1990.
  40. Warf, Encyclopedia of Geography (6 volumes), 2010.
  41. Weiner, Planet Earth, 1986.
  42. Williams, Stories in Stone: Travels through Urban Geology, 2009.
  43. Wright & Pierson, Living with Volcanoes, 1992.
  44. Young, Mind over Magma: The Story of Igneous Petrology, 2003.

Fieldtrip Guidebooks (beyond California).
United States.
     Arizona:
  1. Barney Barnard, Superstition Mountain & Its Famed Dutchman's Lost Mine, 1954.
  2. Bearce, Minerals, Fossils, & Fluorescents of Arizona: A Field Guide for Collectors, 2006.
  3. Blair, The Rockhound's Guide to Arizona, 1992.
  4. Duke, Arizona Gem Fields, 1956.
  5. Flagg, Mineralogical Journeys in Arizona, 1958.
  6. Galbraith & Brennan, Minerals of Arizona, 1959.
  7. Lynch & Lynch, Arizona Rocks & Minerals: A Field Guide to the Grand Canyon State, 2010 (2 copies).
  8. McKee, Ancient Landscapes of the Grand Canyon Region, 1931.
  9. Mitchell, Gem Trails of Arizona, 2009.
  10. Sheppard & Gude, Big Sandy Formation Near Wikieup, Mohave County, Arizona, no date.
  11. Simpson, Gem Trails of Arizona: A Field Guide for Collectors, Third Revised Edition, 1972.
  12. Simpson, Gem Trails of Arizona: A Field Guide for Collectors, Sixth Revised Edition, 1984.
  13. Simpson & Mitchell, Gem Trails of Arizona, Expanded Revised Edition, 1989.
     Arkansas:
  1. Freeman, Fossils of Arkansas, 1989.
  2. Worthington, A Thorough & Accurate History of Genuine Diamonds in Arkansas, 2003.
     Colorado:
  1. Chronic, Roadside Geology of Colorado, 1980.
  2. Duncan, et al., Four Newly Named Tongues of Eocene Green River Formation, Northern Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado, 1974
  3. Kappele, The Rockhound's Guide to Colorado, 1995.
  4. Mitchell, Gem Trails of Colorado, 1997.
  5. Voynick, Climax: The History of Colorado's Climax Molybdenum Mine, 1996.
  6. Voynick, Colorado Rockhounding, 1994.
     Florida:
  1. Comfort, Florida's Geological Treasures, 1998.
  2. Olsen, Fossil Mammals of Florida, 1959.
     Hawaii:
  1. Hazlett & Hyndman, Roadside Geology of Hawaii, 1996.
     Idaho:
  1. Henry, The Rock Collector's Nevada & Idaho, 1953 [filed under "Nevada"].
     Illinois:
  1. Wiggers, Geology Underfoot in Illinois, 1997.
     Indiana:
  1. Fears, et al., Trails of Brown County, Indiana, 1965.
     Iowa:
  1. Wolf, Fossils of Iowa: Field Guide to Paleozoic Deposits, 1983/2006, plus CD.
     Louisiana:
  1. Spearing, Roadside Geology of Louisiana, 1995.
     Maryland:
  1. Park, Maryland Mining Heritage Guide, 2002.
     Michigan:
  1. Kelley & Hardenberg, Collecting Minerals in Michigan, 1962.
  2. Poindexter, et al., Rocks & Minerals of Michigan, Fourth Edition Revised, 1962
     Minnesota:
  1. Ojakangas, Roadside Geology of Minnesota, 2009.
     Missouri:
  1. Spencer, Roadside Geology of Missouri, 2011.
     Montana:
  1. Feldman, The Rockhound's Guide to Montana, 1985.
  2. Feldman, The Rockhound's Guide to Montana, Second Edition, (2 copies) 1992.
  3. Harmon, The River Runs North: A Story of Montana Moss Agate, 2000.
     Nevada:
  1. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Southern Ruby Mountains, Nevada, 1942.
  2. Fiero, Nevada's Valley of Fire, 1976.
  3. Henry, The Rock Collector's Nevada & Idaho, 1953.
  4. Johnson, California-Nevada Ghost Town Atlas, 1967 (shelved with California books).
  5. Johnson, Gem Hunters Atlas: California-Nevada, 1959 (shelved with California books).
  6. Kappele, Rockhounding Nevada, 1998.
  7. Lawson, The Copper Deposits of the Robinson Mining District, Nevada, 1906.
  8. Mitchell, Gem Trails of Nevada, 1991.
  9. Stewart, Geology of Nevada, 1980.
  10. U.S. Department of Interior, Death Valley National Monument, California & Nevada, 1958 (shelved with California books).
  11. Whitman, Notes on Copper Ores at Ely, Nevada, 1914.
     New Mexico:
  1. Crow, The Rockhound's Guide to New Mexico, 1995.
  2. Mitchell, Gem Trails of New Mexico, Expanded Revised Edition, 2001.
  3. Simpson, New Mexico Gem Trails, Second Revised Edition, 1970.
  4. Sinclair & Granger, Paleocene Deposits of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, 1914.
  5. U.S. Department of Interior, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, 1946.
  6. Voynick, New Mexico Rockhounding: A Guide to Minerals, Gemstones, & Fossils, 1997.
     New Jersey:
  1. Stepanski & Snow, Gem Trails of Pennsylvania & New Jersey, Second Edition, 2000.
     New York:
  1. Van Diver, Roadside Geology of New York, 1985.
     North Carolina:
  1. Streeter, A Rockhounding Guide to North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, 2003.
     Oklahoma:
  1. Suneson, Petrified Wood in Oklahoma, 2010.
     Oregon:
  1. McDougall, The Microfauna of the Type Section of the Keasey Formation of Northwestern Oregon, no date.
  2. Mitchell, Gem Trails of Oregon, 1989.
  3. Thoms, Biostratigraphy of the Umpqua Group, Southwestern Oregon, no date.
  4. Treasher, Field Identification of Minerals for Oregon Prospectors & Collectors, 1940.
     Pennsylvania:
  1. Lapham & Geyer, Common Rocks & Minerals of Pennsylvania, 1963.
  2. Stepanski & Snow, Gem Trails of Pennsylvania & New Jersey, Second Edition, 2000.
  3. Van Diver, Roadside Geology of Pennsylvania, 1990.
     South Carolina:
  1. Jacquot, Bone Hunter: Black Water Diving for Fossils & Artifacts in South Carolina's Cooper River, 2008.
     South Dakota:
  1. Domek, Rain Shadow: A Traveler's Guide to the Buffalo Gap National Grassland, 2006.
  2. Gries, Roadside Geology of South Dakota, 1996.
  3. Mitchell, Nugget to Neurtrinos: The Homestake Story, 2009.
     Texas:
  1. Akers & Akers, Texas Cretaceous Echinoids, 1987.
  2. Cross, Gem Trails of Texas, Expanded Revised Edition, 2001.
  3. Crow, The Rockhound's Guide to Texas, 1994.
  4. King, Geology of the Sierra Diablo Region, Texas, with Special Determinative Studies of Permian Fossils, 1965.
  5. Matthews, Texas Fossils: An Amateur Collector's Handbook, 1960.
  6. Simpson, Gem Trails of Texas, Sixth Revised Edition, 1981.
     Utah:
  1. Chronic, Roadside Geology of Utah, 1990.
  2. Holfert, Mroch, & Fuller, A Field Guide to Topaz & Associated Minerals of the Thomas Range, Utah (Topaz Mountain), Volume 1, 1996.
  3. Kappele, Rockhounding Utah, 1996.
  4. Keener, Dinosaur Triangle: Land of the 'Terrible Lizards', 1988.
  5. Mitchell, Gem Trails of Utah, 1996.
  6. Stowe & Perry, Rockhound Guide to Mineral & Fossil Localities in Utah, 1979.
     Virginia:
  1. Hopkins, Staurolite Crystals Found in Patrick County, Virginia: A Natural Wonder! 1998.
     Washington:
  1. Danner, Geology of Olympic National Park, 1955.
  2. Sharpe & Sharpe, 101 Wildflowers of Mt. Rainier National Park, 1957.
     Wyoming:
  1. Blackstone, Traveler's Guide to the Geology of Wyoming, Second Edition, 1988.
  2. Eloxite Corp., Wyoming Collecting Localities, 1965.
  3. Fritz, Roadside Geology of the Yellowstone County, 1985.
  4. Graham, Rockhounding Wyoming, 1996.
  5. Hager, Fossils of Wyoming, 1970.
  6. Lageson & Spearing, Roadside Geology of Wyoming, Revised Second Edition, 1988.
  7. Langford, The Discovery of Yellowstone Park: Journal of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870, 1972.
  8. McGrew & Casilliano, The Geological History of Fossil Butte National Monument & Fossil Basin, reprinted 1990.
  9. Ulrich, Stone Fish: Fossils from Ulrich Quarries, 1977.
Regional.
  1. Butcher, Exploring Our National Parks & Monuments, Ninth Edition, 1995.
  2. Eckert, Earth Treasures: Volume 1: The Northeastern Quadrant, 1987.
  3. Eckert, Earth Treasures: Volume 2: The Southeastern Quadrant, 1987.
  4. Eckert, Earth Treasures: Volume 3: The Northwestern Quadrant, 1987.
  5. Eckert, Earth Treasures: Volume 4: The Southwestern Quadrant, 1987.
  6. Hankins (AFMS), Lewis & Clark: Rockhounding on the Way to the Pacific, 2004.
  7. Johnson & Johnson, Coast to Coast Gem Atlas, Revised Fifth Edition, 1987.
  8. Johnson, Gem Hunters Atlas: Northwest, 1960.
  9. Johnson, Gem Hunters Atlas: Southwest, 1958.
  10. Johnson, N.W. Gem Fields & Ghost Town Atlas, Sixth Printing, 1977.
  11. Johnson, Western Gem Hunters Atlas, First Edition, 1962.
  12. Johnson, Western Gem Hunters Atlas, Nineteenth Edition, Revised 1984.
  13. Johnson, Western Gem Hunters Atlas, 27th Edition, 1996 (2 copies).
  14. Monaco & Monaco, Fee Mining & Rockhounding Adventures in the West, 2007.
  15. Zeitner, Midwest Gem Trails, 1964.
  16. Zeitner, Midwest Gem, Fossil & Mineral Trails: Great Lake States: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, 1988.
  17. Zeitner, Midwest Gem, Fossil, & Mineral Trails: Prairie States, 1998.
Outside the United States.
     Australia:
  1. Cooper & Krosch, Queensland Opal, 1977.
  2. Cram, Beautiful Coober Pedy: Home of the Desert Opal, 2001.
  3. Cram, Beautiful Lightning Ridge: 100 Years of the World's Most Famous Black Opal Field, 2000.
  4. McCondra, Fire in a Plain Brown Wrapper: The Gem Magic of Queensland Opal, 2006.
  5. Perry & Perry, Australian Gemstones in Color.
     Canada:
  1. Gordon, Rock Watching Adventures Above & Below Ontario, 2005.
  2. Horvath, Mineral Species Discovered in Canada & Species Named After Canadians, 2003.
  3. Hutchinson & Hutchinson, Rockhounding & Beachcombing on Vancouver Island, Second Edition, 1975.
     Mexico:
  1. Johnson, A Field Guide to the Gems and Minerals of Mexico, 1965 (2 copies).

Fluorescent Minerals.
  1. Black Light Eastern Corporation, The Story of Black Light: The Unseen World Around Us, no date.
  2. Dake, The Uranium & Fluorescent Minerals, 1953.
  3. Gleason, Ultraviolet Guide to Minerals, 1960.
  4. Robbins, Fluorescence: Gems & Minerals Under Ultraviolet Light, 1994.
  5. Schneider, Collecting Fluorescent Minerals, 2004.
  6. Wain, The Story of Fluorescence, 1968 (2 copies).

Fossils & Paleontology.
  1. Addicott, Some Western American Cenozoic Gastropods of the Genus Nassarius, 1965.
  2. Anonymous, Microfossil Types, 3-ringer binder of assorted materials, no date.
  3. Arduini & Teruzzi, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Fossils, 1986 (2 copies).
  4. Benes & Brown, Fossils of the World, 1988.
  5. Camp & Hanna, Methods in Paleontology, 1937.
  6. Casanova, An Illustrated Guide to Fossil Collecting, 1957.
  7. Casanova, An Illustrated Guide to Fossil Collecting, Revised Edition, 1970.
  8. Casanova & Ratkevich, An Illustrated Guide to Fossil Collecting, 3rd Revised Edition, 1981 (2 copies).
  9. Case, A Pictorial Guide to Fossils, 1982.
  10. Committee on Guidelines for Paleontological Collecting, Paleontological Collecting, 1987.
  11. Conrad, Fossil Shells of the Tertiary Formations of North America, 1963.
  12. Czerkas & Czerkas, Dinosaurs: A Global View, 1991 (on oversized shelf).
  13. Eaton, Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates, 1951.
  14. Feldman, Chapman, & Hannibal, Paleotechniques, 1989.
  15. Flannery, Black Opal Fossils of Lightning Ridge: Treasures from the Rainbow Billabong, 1999.
  16. Flower, New American Wutinoceratidae and Endoceroids, 1976 (fossil cephalopods).
  17. Garcia, Illustrated Guide to Fossil Vertebrate, 1974.
  18. Goldring, Fossils in the Field: Information Potential & Analysis, 1991.
  19. Grande, Paleontology of the Green River Formation, with a Review of the Fish Fauna, 1984 (2 copies).
  20. Guenther, Fossil Mania: My Experiences Collecting Fossils in Ohio & Other States, 1991.
  21. Horenstein, Familiar Fossils of North America: Audubon Society Pocket Guide, 1988.
  22. Illinois State Museum, Coal Age Fossils from Mazon Creek, 1979.
  23. Jones, et al., The Lower Cretaceous Ammonite Genera Leconteites & Brewericeras, 1965.
  24. Kelley, Kelly's Guide to Fossil Sharks, 1971.
  25. Kesling & Chilman, Strata and Megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation, 1975.
  26. Kummel, American Triassic Coiled Nautiloids, 1953.
  27. Larson, et al., Ammonites & the Other Cephalopods of the Pierre Seaway, 1997.
  28. Leakey, Adam's Ancestors: The Evolution of Man & His Culture, 1934/1960.
  29. Lichter, Fossil Collector's Handbook: Finding, Identifying, Preparing, Displaying, 1993.
  30. MacFall & Wollin, Fossils for Amateurs: A Handbook for Collectors, 1972.
  31. Marsh, Notes on Crinoidea, 1942.
  32. Marsh, Notes on Trilobites, 1942.
  33. Marsh, Trilobites of the Paleozoic Era, 1937.
  34. Martin & Bright, Sea Monsters of the Midwest, 1990.
  35. Matthews, Fossils: An Introduction to Prehistoric Life, 1962 (2 copies).
  36. Moody, Fossils: How to Find & Identify Over 300 Genera, Macmillan Field Guides, 1986.
  37. Moore, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Part C, Protista 2,Volumes 1 & 2, 1964.
  38. National Geographic, December 1955, "Ice Age Man: The First American", article.
  39. National Geographic, March 1958, "Russell Cave: New Light on Stone Age Life", article.
  40. National Geographic, July 1998, "Dinosaurs Take Wing: The Origin of Birds", special issue.
  41. National Geographic, September 2010, "Madagascar's Pierced Heart", article.
  42. National Geographic, October 2010, "Australia's Lost Giants", article.
  43. National Geographic, February 2011, "The Curious History of Feathers"—how feathers evolved.
  44. Newman, Geologic Time: The Age of the Earth, 1970.
  45. Norman & Milner, Eyewitness Books: Dinosaur, 1989.
  46. Norman, The Prehistoric World of the Dinosaur, 1988 (on oversized shelf).
  47. Parker & Bernor, The Practical Paleontologist, 1990.
  48. Paul, The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs, 2000.
  49. Pellant & Pellant, 1000 Facts on Fossils, 2007.
  50. Pinna, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fossils, 1985/1990.
  51. Ransom, Fossils in America, 1964 (2 copies).
  52. Raup & Stanley, Principles of Paleontology, Second Edition, 1978.
  53. Rhodes, Fossils: A Golden Guide, 1962.
  54. Ross, Amber: The Natural Time Capsule, 2010.
  55. Russell-Hunter, A Biology of Lower Invertebrates, 1968.
  56. Shipman, Life History of a Fossil: An Introduction to Taphonomy & Paleoecology, 1981.
  57. Stanley, Extinction, 1987.
  58. Stinchcomb, Mesozoic Fossils II: The Cretaceous Period, 2009.
  59. Stinchcomb, World's Oldest Fossils, 2007.
  60. Taylor, Eyewitness Books: Fossil, 1990.
  61. Thomas, Fossil Vertebrates: Beach & Bank Collecting for Amateurs, 1968.
  62. Thompson, The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils, 1982/1995 (2 copies).
  63. Walker & Ward, Eyewitness Handbooks: Fossils: The Visual Guide to More Than 500 Species of Fossils from Around the World, 1992.
  64. Wexo, Fossils Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1976 (magazine then went extinct).
  65. Whiteley & Kloc, Fossil Preparation Manual, 1995.

General Reference.
  1. American Federation of Mineralogical Societies, Safety Manual, no date.
  2. American Federation of Mineralogical Societies, Uniform Rules, 8th Edition, 2011 Update (2 copies).
  3. American Geological Institute, Dictionary of Geological Terms, Revised Edition, 1976.
  4. Bates & Jackson, Dictionary of Geological Terms, Third Edition, 1984.
  5. Howell, Glossary of Geology & Related Sciences, 1957.
  6. Kearey, The New Penguin Dictionary of Geology, 1996.
  7. Lapidus, The Facts on File Dictionary of Geology & Geophysics, 1987.
  8. Mitchell, Dictionary of Rocks, 1985.
  9. Mitchell, The Rockhound's Handbook, Revised Expanded Edition, 2008.
  10. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, 1999.
  11. Mummert & Shelton, Exhibiting: The Show Biz Aspect of the Hobby, 1990.
  12. Robert, Roberts Rules of Order, Newly Revised, 9th Edition, 1990.
  13. Shephard, Presenting at Conferences, Seminars, & Meetings, 2005.
  14. Strunk & White, The Elements of Style, 4th Edition, 2000.
  15. Wolberg & Reinard, Collecting the Natural World: Legal Requirements & Personal Liability for Collecting Plants, Animals, Rocks, Minerals & Fossils, 1997.

Gold Prospecting.
  1. Automobile Club of Southern California, The Mother Lode, 1989.
  2. Butler, Recreational Gold Prospecting for Fun & Profit, 1998.
  3. Clark, Lost Mines of the Old West, 1946.
  4. Coggin (editor), Rhymes of the Mines: Life in the Underground, 2nd Edition, 2006.
  5. DeLorenzo, Gold Fever & the Art of Panning & Sluicing, 1970/1978.
  6. Garrett, Modern Metal Detectors, Revised Edition, 1991/1995.
  7. Green, The Gold Hustlers, 1977.
  8. Henderson, "They Found Gold—the Hard Way," The Desert Magazine, August 1939 (article in folder).
  9. Jenkins, Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49—Sierran Gold Belt: The Mother Lode Country (Centennial Edition), Bulletin 141, 1948.
  10. Johnson, Gold Diggers Atlas, Third Edition, 1973.
  11. Johnson, Gold Diggers Atlas, 1971 (6th printing, 1980).
  12. Klein, Where to Find Gold in Southern California, 1994.
  13. LaRune, Rockpecker: A Mineral Prospector's Primer: Secrets, Clues, Tips, Hints, Data & Tricks of the Trade, 1993.
  14. Lassiter, Midwest Gold Prospecting, 2006.
  15. McCracken, Gold Mining in the 21st Century: The Complete Book of Modern Gold Mining Procedures, 2005.
  16. National Geographic, January 1974, "Gold, The Eternal Treasure", article.
  17. Northwest Distributors, Inc., California Gold & Gem Maps, Then & Now, Northern Edition, 2002.
  18. Northwest Distributors, Inc., California Gold & Gem Maps, Then & Now, Southern Edition, 2002.
  19. Peterson, et al., Tertiary Gold-Bearing Channel Gravel in Northern Nevada County, California, 1968.
  20. Rynerson, Exploring & Mining for Gems & Gold in the West, 1967.
  21. Stoiser, In Search of Gold & Other Adventure & Humor Stories, 2006.
  22. Toole, Where to Find Gold in California, 1998.
  23. Voynick, Colorado Gold: From the Pike's Peak Rush to the Present, 1992.
  24. Voynick, Leadville: A Miner's Epic, 1984.
  25. Voynick, The Making of a Hardrock Miner, 1978.
  26. Wasson, Tales Mark Twain Would Have Loved to Steal, 2007.
  27. Woodworth & Wilson, Rivers of Gold, no date.

Lapidary Arts.
  1. Anonymous, Lapidary Arts Articles, collection of articles from magazines in binder.
  2. Anonymous, Lapidary Gemstones, collection of articles on agate, jade, etc., in binder.
  3. Arem, Gems & Jewelry, 2nd Edition, 1992.
  4. Armstrong, Wax & Casting: A Notebook of Jewelry Design & Technique, 2002.
  5. Balej, Gem Cutter's Guide, 1963.
  6. Bogert, Totally Twisted: Innovative Wirework & Art Glass Jewelry, 2009.
  7. Chandler & Ritchey, Getting Started Making Wire Jewelry & More, 2005.
  8. Chandler & Ritchey, Wire Wrapping, 2008.
  9. Chin, Hot Connections Jewelry: The Complete Sourcebook of Soldering Techniques, 2011.
  10. Choate, Creative Casting, Jewelry, Silverware and Sculpture, 1966.
  11. Cox, Cabochon Cutting, 1970.
  12. Cox, Plastic and Gemstones, 1973.
  13. Craft Course Publishers, Bottle Cutting & Decorating, 1972.
  14. Craft Course Publishers, Picture Sculpture: A Three-Dimensional Craft, 1973.
  15. Crowe, The Jeweler's Directory of Gemstones: A Complete Guide to Appraising & Using Precious Stones, from Cut & Color to Shape & Setting, 2006.
  16. Dake, The Art of Gem Cutting, Fifth Edition, 1954.
  17. Dennis, Gems: A Lively Guide for the Casual Collector, 1999.
  18. DiMarco, Off-Loom Woven Bead Necklaces, 2009.
  19. Downing, Opal Cutting Made Easy, Revised & Expanded Edition, 1993.
  20. Downing, Opal & Gemstone Jewelry: Cutting, Designing, Setting: A Step-by-Step Guide, 2009.
  21. Epstein, The Gem Merchant: How to be One, How to Deal with One, 2nd Edition, 2003.
  22. Felisky, Lost Wax Steam Casting, 1971.
  23. French, Jewelry Craft Made Easy, 1976.
  24. Geisinger, Jewelry Maker's Handbook, 1973.>
  25. Gem Carvers Guild of America, Gem Carvers Handbook, Vol. 1, 1979.
  26. Gem Carvers Guild of America, Gem Carvers Handbook, Vol. 2, 1982.
  27. Gem-Tec Diamond Tool Co., Making Life Easier for the Rockhound: Tips on Tumbling, Using Your Saw, Cleaning, Polishing, Field Trips, Etc., no date (2 copies one in binder).
  28. Gems TV, Guide to Gems & Jewelry, 2009.
  29. Hagar, DeWitte Hagar's Handbook of Rocks & Gems, 1957.
  30. Hermes & George, Decoupage: Start to Finish, 1968.
  31. Holschuh, The Jeweler's Studio Handbook: Traditional & Contemporary Techniques for Working with Metal & Mixed-Media Materials, 2009.
  32. Hughes, Modern Jewelry, 1968.
  33. Hunt, Lapidary Carving for Creative Jewelry: Basic Techniques for Carving Ringstones & Pendants, 3rd Edition, 2003.
  34. Kanan, The Basics of Bead Stringing: A Complete Illustrated Approach for Beginner & Advanced Designers, 2001.
  35. Kraus & Slawson, Gems & Gem Materials, 1947.
  36. Kraus, Introduction to Lapidary, 1987.
  37. Leiper & Kraus, Gem Cutting Shop Helps: The Best Selected from 17 Years of The Lapidary Journal, 1964.
  38. Long & Steele, Introduction to Meetpoint Faceting, 1985.
  39. Lortone, Inc., Professional Gemstone Tumbling: A Step-By-Step Guide to Tumbling Gemstones, 2004.
  40. Matlins, Colored Gemstones: The Antoinette Matlins Buying Guide, 2001.
  41. McCreight, The Complete Metalsmith, Revised Edition, 1991 (2 copies).
  42. McKinnon, Sculptural Metal Clay Jewelry, 2010.
  43. Muncher, Bevel Mounting Freeform Stones, 2009.
  44. Nowosod, Pearls: Fun and Fancy, 1971.
  45. Parsons & Soukup, Gem Materials Data Book, 1957.
  46. Peck & Dickerson, Handcrafted Wire Findings: Techniques & Designs for Custom Jewelry Components, 2011.
  47. Peters, Diamond Inclusions, 2010.
  48. Plumlee, Chain & Bead Jewelry: Geometric Connections: A New Angle on Creating Dimensional Earrings, Bracelets, & Necklaces, 2010.
  49. Post, The National Gem Collection, Smithsonian Institution, 1997.
  50. Price, Masterpieces of American Jewelry, 2004.
  51. Riggle, How to Use Diamond Abrasives to Cut Gemstones, 1978/1996.
  52. Rosenthal, Rocks & Gems Jewelry Making, 1961.
  53. Seecharran, The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Jewelry Making Techniques, 2009.
  54. Shoenfelt, Designing & Making Handwrought Jewelry, 1960.
  55. Sinkankas, Gem Cutting: A Lapidary's Manual, Second Edition, 1955/1962.
  56. Smith, Silversmithing: A Manual of Design & Technique, 2000.
  57. Sommer, Contemporary Costume Jewelry: A Multimedia Approach, 1974.
  58. Sunset Books, Jewelry You can Make: Techniques and Projects, 1975.
  59. Thornton, Enchanted Adornments: Creating Mixed-Media Jewelry with Metal Clay, Wire, Resin, & More, 2009.
  60. Voynick, Yogo: The Great American Sapphire.
  61. Wertz & Wertz, Handbook of Gemstone Carving, 1968.
  62. Wise, The French Blue, 2010.
  63. Wykoff, The Techniques of Master Gem Polishing, 1994.
  64. Young, The Workbench Guide to Jewelry Techniques, 2010.

Meteorites.
  1. National Geographic, February 1958, "Exploring Our Neighbor World, the Moon".
  2. National Geographic, December 2009, articles on planets beyond our solar system.
  3. Norton, Rocks from Space: Meteorites & Meteorite Hunters, Second Edition, 1998.
  4. Reynolds, Falling Stars: A Guide to Meteors & Meteorites, 2001.
  5. Rockhound Software, Falling from the Sky: A Meteorite Resource on CD-ROM, 2000.
  6. Smith, The Meteor Crater Story, 1996.
  7. Smith, Russell, & Benedix, Meteorites, 2009.

Petrified Wood & Fossil Plants.
  1. Daniels, Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, & Cycads, 1998.
  2. Dernbach, Ulrich Dernbach's Petrified Forests: The World's 31 Most Beautiful Petrified Forests, 1996 (on oversized shelf).
  3. ESCONI, Keys to Identify Pennsylvanian Fossil Plants of the Mazon Creek Area, 1986.
  4. Hadley, The Ginkgo or Maidenhair Tree: A Survivor from the Geologic Ages, 1946.
  5. Hoadley, Identifying Wood: Accurate Results with Simple Tools, 1990.
  6. Janssen, Leaves & Stems from Fossil Forests: A Handbook of the Paleobotanical Collections in the Illinois State Museum, 1979.
  7. Kern County Mineral Society, Petrified Wood Identification, binder, 1994.
  8. Manning, Petrified Wood in the U.S.A.: Where to Collect It, Where to See It, 2002.
  9. Page, How to Identify Fossil Wood, A Gems & Minerals Handbook, no date.
  10. Ransom, Petrified Forest Trails: A Guide to the Petrified Forests of America: A Handbook for the Collector of Petrified Woods, 1955.
  11. Tidwell, Common Fossil Plants of Western North America, 1975.
  12. Tidwell, Common Fossil Plants of Western North America, Second Edition, 1998 (2 copies).
  13. U.S. Dept. of Interior, Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona, 1949.
  14. White, The Flowering of Gondwana: The 400 Million Year Story of Australia's Plants, 1990 (on oversized shelf).
  15. Wright, Identification of Petrified Wood, seminar binder, 2001.

Rocks & Minerals.
  1. Arem, Rocks and Minerals, 1973.
  2. Barlow, Jones, & LaBerge, The F. John Barlow Mineral Collection, 1996.
  3. Barron's Educational Series, Essential Atlas of Fossils & Minerals, 2004.
  4. Benkart, A Key to the Identification of Minerals, 1954.
  5. Bonewitz, Smithsonian Rock & Gem, 2005/2008.
  6. Brumbaugh, Minerals: Quick-Guide to Mineral Identification, 1998 (3-panel laminated fold-out).
  7. Bureau of Mines, Mineral Facts and Problems, Bulletin 556, 1956.
  8. Bureau of Mines, Mineral Facts and Problems, Bulletin 650, 1970.
  9. Clark, South Dakota's State Gemstone: Fairburn Agate, 2009.
  10. Copeland, Diamonds: Famous, Notable and Unique, 1974.
  11. Court & Campbell, Minerals: Nature's Fabulous Jewels, no date (on oversized shelf).
  12. Crook, Guide to the Mineral Collections in the Illinois State Museum, 1920.
  13. Dana & Ford, A Textbook of Mineralogy, 1898/1926.
  14. Dana & Hurlbut, Dana's Minerals & How to Study Them, 1963.
  15. Deer & Zussman, An Introduction to the Rock Forming Minerals, 1971.
  16. Deeson, The Collector's Encyclopedia of Rocks & Minerals, 1973.
  17. Eakle, Mineral Tables for the Determination of Minerals by their Physical Properties, 1931.
  18. English, Getting Acquainted with Minerals, 1934.
  19. Farndon, The Complete Guide to Rocks & Minerals, 2007.
  20. Fenton & Fenton, The Rock Book, 1952.
  21. Fleischer, Glossary of Mineral Species, 5th Edition, 1987.
  22. Fuller, Pockets Rocks & Minerals, 2003.
  23. Gallery Books, The Mineral Collector's Library, 1990.
  24. Gump, Jade Hunt, 1937.
  25. Hall, Dorling Kindersley Handbooks: Gemstones, 1994.
  26. Hall, Eyewitness Handbooks: Gemstones, 1994.
  27. Hurlbut, Dana's Manual of Mineralogy, 15th Edition, 1941.
  28. Hurlbut, Minerals & Man, 1970.
  29. James, A Systematic Approach to Mineral Identification, 1996.
  30. King, Gems & Gemology in Review: Colored Diamonds, 2006.
  31. King, Collector's Guide to Granite Pegmatites, 2010.
  32. Kittinger, A Look at Rocks: From Coal to Kimberlite, 1997.
  33. Klein & Hurlbut, after Dana, Manual of Mineralogy, 21st Edition, 1993.
  34. Krajick, Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic, 2001.
  35. Kraus & Slawson, Gems & Gem Materials, Fourth Edition, 1941.
  36. Larsen & Berman, The Microscopic Determination of the Nonopaque Minerals, 2nd Edition, 1934.
  37. Lauf, Collector's Guide to the Epidote Group, 2008.
  38. Lauf, Collector's Guide to the Mica Group, 2008.
  39. Lauf, Collector's Guide to the Pyroxene Group, 2010.
  40. Lauf, Collector's Guide to Silicate Crystals & Structures, 2010.
  41. Lauf, Collector's Guide to the Three Phases of Titania, 2009.
  42. Lauf, Collector's Guide to the Tourmaline Group, 2011.
  43. Lee, The Mineral Gods Must be Laughing: Modern Day Adventures of a Real Life Indiana Jones, 2006.
  44. Leechman, The Opal Book: A Complete Guide to the Famous Gemstone, 1961.
  45. Liddicoat, Handbook of Gem Identification, 1969.
  46. Lowry & Lowry, Turquoise Unearthed: An Illustrated Guide, 2002.
  47. MacFall, Gem Hunter's Guide: How to Find & Identify Gem Minerals, Revised Edition, 1963.
  48. MacFall, Gem Hunter's Guide, How to Find & Identify Gem Minerals, 5th Revised Edition, 1975.
  49. Marshall, The "Other" Lake Superior Agates, text of book on a CD, along with database of agate images.
  50. Melody, Love is in the Earth: Mineralogical Pictorial, 1993.
  51. Mitchell, Mineral Names: What Do They Mean? 1979.
  52. National Geographic, September 1937, "Platinum in the World's Work", article.
  53. National Geographic, April 1958, "The Many-Sided Diamond", article.
  54. O'Donoghue, An Illustrated Guide to Rocks & Minerals, 1991.
  55. Palache, et al., The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana & Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, 1944.
  56. Pearl, Rocks & Minerals, 1956.
  57. Pellant, Smithsonian Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals, 1992.
  58. Pellant & Pellant, 1000 Facts on Rocks & Minerals, 2005.
  59. Pellant & Pellant, Eyewitness Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals, 1992.
  60. Pellant & Phillips, Rocks, Minerals, & Fossils of the World, 1990 (2 copies).
  61. Pekov & Lykova, Rubtsovskoe Deposit (NW Altai, Russia): Mineralogy of the Oxidation Zone, 2011.
  62. Pirsson, Rocks & Minerals: A Manual of the Elements of Petrology without the Use of the Microscope, 1926.
  63. Pough, Peterson Field Guides: A Field Guide to Rocks & Minerals, 4th Edition, 1983.
  64. Ricciuti & Carruthers, National Audubon Society First Field Guide: Rocks & Minerals, 1998.
  65. Sanborn, Handbook of Crystal & Mineral Collecting, 1966.
  66. Schumann, Gemstones of the World, 1976.
  67. Schumann, Gemstones of the World: Revised & Expanded Edition, no date.
  68. Shell Oil Company, Let's Collect Rocks & Shells, 1988 (2 copies).
  69. Sinkankas, Gemstone and Mineral Data Book, 1972.
  70. Sinkankas, Gemstones of North America, 1959.
  71. Sofianides & Harlow, Gems & Crystals from the American Museum of Natural History, 1990.
  72. Sorrell, Minerals of the World, 1973.
  73. Symes & Harding, Eyewitness Crystal & Gem, 2007.
  74. Symes, Eyewitness Rocks & Minerals, 2000.
  75. Symes, Eyewitness Rocks & Minerals, 2008.
  76. Techter, Stereogram Book of Rocks, Minerals, & Gems, 1970/1972.
  77. Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation, The Petrified River: The Story of Uranium, 1956.
  78. Van Leuven, Beliefs, Superstitions & Facts About the Birthstones, 1960.
  79. Van Pelt, Birthday Book of Gems, 1986.
  80. Walton, Physical Gemmology, 1952.
  81. Wright & Chadbourne, Gems and Minerals of the Bible, 1970.
  82. Zim & Cooper, Minerals: Their Identification, Uses, & How to Collect Them, 1943.
  83. Zzyzx, A Guide to Common Mineral Fakes, 2008, small-format magazine.

VGMS Club History & Resources.
  1. All-American Club Award 2010: Our 2009 Year in Review binder.
  2. By-Laws & Operating Regulations, 2011 Update.
  3. Directory.
  4. The Many Facets of Rockhounding: Special Exhibit for the California Oil Museum.

Videos.
Earth & Planetary Science.
  1. Astronomy 101: A Beginner's Guide to the Night Sky, Mazon Productions, Inc.
  2. Continental Drift.
  3. Earthquakes.
  4. Jewel of the Desert: Kartchner Caverns State Park.
  5. Planet Earth (2 copies).
  6. Surviving the Big One: How to Prepare for a Major Earthquake, KCET Video.
Fossils & Paleontology.
  1. Allosaurus.
  2. Dinosaurs, hosted by Sir David Attenborough.
  3. Dinosaurs, Parts I, II, III, IV, hosted by Walter Cronkite.
  4. Eyewitness: Prehistoric Life, narrated by Martin Sheen.
  5. The Great Dinosaur Hunt and Out of the Rock, U.S. Bureau of Mines.
  6. The Mystery of the Pygmy Mammoth.
Rocks & Minerals.
  1. Collecting Earth’s Natural Treasures, directed by Kevin Guest.
  2. Gems and Minerals, Smithsonian Video Collection.
  3. Gemstones of America, Smithsonian Institution, hosted by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (2 copies).
  4. Russian Gem Treasures, hosted by Robert (Bob) Jones.
  5. Science in Action: Rocks & Minerals, TMW Media Group.

DVDs.
Lapdary Arts.
  1. Video Guide: The Genie, The Gemsmith/Diamond Pacific Tool Corporation.
Rocks & Minerals.
  1. Capturing the Minerals: Three Photographers' Perspective, Westward Look Show.
  2. How to Find Genuine Diamonds in Arkansas, Hosted by Glenn W. Worthington.
  3. The Lester & Sue Smith Gem Vault Media Kit, The Houson Museum of Natural Science.
  4. Mineral Artists Show, Fine Minerals International.
  5. The New Crystal Hunters: Arkansas, by BlueCap Productions.
  6. The New Crystal Hunters: Pala, by BlueCap Productions (2 copies).
  7. The New Crystal Hunters: Smoky Hawk, by BlueCap Productions.
  8. Rhodochrosite: Red Treasure of the Rockies: The Story of the Sweet Home Mine, Silver Mountain Productions.
  9. What’s Hot in Tucson, 2009, Host David Wilbur, BlueCap Productions.
  10. What’s Hot in Tucson, 2010, Hosts David Wilbur & Bob Jones, BlueCap Productions.
  11. What’s Hot in Tucson, 2011, Host Deophine Leblanc, BlueCap Productions.

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