Materials from the Continental Shelf

A partial listing of minerals, elements and rock-types theoretically inherent in the sediment collected for Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain, 1993, from the continental shelf off the coast of central California. This assemblage of materials is potentially derived from the entire watershed that includes the Sacramento, Feather, Napa, Cosumnes, Mokelumne, American, San Joaquin and Merced Rivers. This system empties out through the Golden Gate, and gathers sediment from a landscape that ranges most of the length of the Great Valley, the central and eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada and much of the Coast Ranges and coastal rocks of Central California. This listing is also included in the video, Gradient, 1994, that documents the collection of materials for Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain.

Acmite
actinolite
adnesine
aegerine
albite
amphibole
anatase
andalusite
andesine
andesite
andradite
ankerite
antigorite
apatite
aragonite
augite
axinite
barite
bastite
bentonite
biotite
bolingite
brookite
brucite
calcite
fluorapatite
cassiterite
chlorite
chromian spinel
clinochrysotile
clinopyroxene
clinozoisite
coalingite
crocidolite
crossite
datolite
dillage
diopsite
diorite
dunite
enstatite
epidiorite
epidote
epsomite
felsite
ferrostilpnomelane
garnet
gastaldite
glaucophane
goethite
gold
granodiorite
grossularite
gypsum
halloysite
harzburgite
hedenbergite
hematite
hornblend
hydrous iron silicate
hisingerite
hypersthene
ilmenite
jadeite
kämmererite
kyanite
labradorite
laterite
laumontite
lawsonite
lepidocrocite
leucoxene
lignite
lizardite
magnetite
millerite
monazite
montmorillonite
mordenite
muscovite
nesquehonite
nontronite
oglioclase
olivine
omphacite
orthochrysotile
orthopyroxene
pectolite
peridotite
perthite
picotite
pigeonite
plagioclase
prehnite
pumpellyite
pyrite
pyroaurite
pyroxene
quartz
quartzite
cerium phosphates
riebeckite
rodingite
rutile
serpentine
sphene
spinel
stilpnomelane
tachylite
titaniferous augite
tourmaline
tremolite
vermiculite
vesuvianite
xonotile
zircon
zoisite