Map Collections

Stanford Geological Survey

The Stanford Geological Survey (SGS) existed for 100 years, from 1895 until 1995. During this time, students and faculty went into the field to survey and map parts of California, Nevada and Utah. The SGS  manuscript collection has been available in a limited way, only to those who visited the library and located the few items shown in the library's catalog.

In the fall of 2001, Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections received a grant from the California State Library to catalog, scan, and display the maps, field notebooks and field reports from this collection. The project now has over 450 maps and 50 field notebooks online. The collection can be viewed through the Humanities Digital Information Services' Luna Insight service. To use this resource, you must first install the free browser software from the site.

Download software here: HDIS Luna Insight.

If you were a part of the Survey, please go to the permissions page to allow us to include your work in the project.
 
 

	Murphy Peak Area (survey map), [California] L.S.J.U. Geological Survey, [1911] Topographic Geology Map Surveyed by E.B. Corbet, T.N. Turner, and T.W. Thompson Click on the image to view the full size of the map. (File size: 947KB)
	Murphy Peak Area, [California] L.S.J.U. Geological Survey, [1911] Topographic Geology Map T.N. Turner, T.W. Thompson, and E.B. Corbet Click on the image to view the full size of the map.  (File size: 875KB)
	Geologic map of Swauger Creek Ð Masonic Mountain area Mono County, California Stanford Geological Survey, 1961 Map created by James G. Smith Click on the image to view the full size of the map.  (File size: 2.87MB)
	Geology of the Pine Mountain area Ventura County, California Stanford Geological Survey, 1964 Map created by Judy Terry Click on the image to view the full size of the map.  (File size: 4.04MB)