“ Fossil Birds . ” Los Angeles County Museum Science Series , No. 17 ( 1962 ) . Kennedy , Michael P. “ Geology of the San Diego Metropolitan Area , California . ” California Division of Mines and Geology , Bulletin 200 ( 1975 ) .
Includes introductory chapters on basic ecology and geology to familiarize the reader with the climate, rocks, soil, plants, and animals in each distinctive region of California and shows how the state's natural history is uniquely ...
Rundel introduces readers to the plant communities of the Southern California coastal areas and foothills, including color photos of 250 species and additional color habitat photos.
Quinn, James P. “Rancho La Brea: Geologic Set‐ting, Late Quaternary Depositional Patterns and Mode of Fossil Accumulation. ... Papers from the Northridge Conference on Archeoastronomy, edited by A. Benson and T. Hoskinson.
... Steve McElfresh, Patina Mendez, Pete Oboyski, Kendall Osborne, John Oswald, Kerry Padgett, Richard Peigler, Norm and Ana Penny, Mary Power, Cindy Preto, Brady Richards, Dave Ruiter, Aaron Schusteff, Bill Shepard, Michael Smith, ...
The Brown Pelican forages in saltwater and can plunge - dive from as high as 60 feet . Extending its neck and holding its wings back , the pelican hits the water head first with a great splash . Air sacs protect its skull from the force ...
By nature man is a creature of curiosity.
Southern California shrubs are treated in Native Shrubs of Southern California , by Peter H. Raven , University of California Press . It is rather difficult to describe specifically the physical characteristics of all members even of a ...
California Butterflies
Ronald D. Quinn, Dr. Sterling Keeley. 2002. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 107 pp. ... Ornduff, Robert, Phyllis M. Faber, and Todd Keeler-Wolf. 2003. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
A book on California's islands that deals with their natural history and geology as well as the history of human habitation.