Richard G Stanley
Richard Stanley is a scientist emeritus with the Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center in Menlo Park CA. Richard conducts geological field studies and subsurface investigations in California and Alaska to understand geologic history, seismic hazards, and energy resources.
Professional Experience
1984–present, Research Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park CA
1983–1984, Lecturer, California State University, Fresno CA
1979–1981, Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz CA
1975–1977, Exploration Geologist, Pennzoil Producing Company, Houston TX
Education and Certifications
PhD, Earth Sciences, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, 1984
MA, Geology, Rice Univ., 1976
BA, Biology, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, 1973
BS, Earth Sciences, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, 1973
Science and Products
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Preliminary report on petroleum source potential and thermal maturity of the Lospe Formation (lower Miocene) near Point Sal, onshore Santa Maria Basin, California Preliminary report on petroleum source potential and thermal maturity of the Lospe Formation (lower Miocene) near Point Sal, onshore Santa Maria Basin, California
No abstract available.
Authors
Richard G. Stanley, M. J. Pawlewicz, D.R. Vork, S. Y. Johnson, Z. C. Valin
The "checkerboard method"; a new way to estimate the numbers of undiscovered hydrocarbon accumulations in sparsely drilled areas The "checkerboard method"; a new way to estimate the numbers of undiscovered hydrocarbon accumulations in sparsely drilled areas
No abstract available.
Authors
Richard G. Stanley
Geochemical evaluation of coal from the Tertiary Usibelli Group, Usibelli mine, Alaska, one of the lowest sulfur coals mined in the United States Geochemical evaluation of coal from the Tertiary Usibelli Group, Usibelli mine, Alaska, one of the lowest sulfur coals mined in the United States
The Nenana coal basin extends 240 km in length and 1.5-50 krn in width along the northern foothills of the Alaska Range in central Alaska. Located at the western end of the Nenana basin is the Usibelli Coal Mine, approximately 120 km southwest of Fairbanks. The Tertiary Usibelli Group consists of coal-bearing fluvial and lacustrine sedimentary deposits that were derived from the Yukon...
Authors
Ronald H. Affolter, Gary D. Stricker, Richard G. Stanley
Middle Tertiary extension recorded by lacustrine fan-delta deposits, Plush Ranch Basin, western Transverse Ranges, California Middle Tertiary extension recorded by lacustrine fan-delta deposits, Plush Ranch Basin, western Transverse Ranges, California
The Plush Ranch Formation (upper Oligocene and lower Miocene) consists of more than 1800 m of nonmarine sedimentary and volcanic rocks that record the history of an extensional basin referred to here as the Plush Ranch basin. Distinctive depositional facies, provenance, and sediment transport directions along each basin margin suggest an asymmetric basin shape that is consistent with a...
Authors
Ronald B. Cole, Richard G. Stanley
Preliminary Geologic Map of the Big Pine Mountain Quadrangle, California Preliminary Geologic Map of the Big Pine Mountain Quadrangle, California
Reconnaissance geologic mapping of the San Rafael Primitive Area (now the San Rafael Wilderness) by Gower and others (1966) and Vedder an others (1967) showed s number of stratigraphic and structural ambiguities. To help resolve some of those problems, additional field work was done on parts of the Big Pine Moutain quadrangle during short intervals in 1981 and 1984, and 1990-1994.
Authors
J. G. Vedder, Hugh McLean, R. G. Stanley
Sedimentology of subaqueous volcaniclastic sediment gravity flows in the Neogene Santa Maria Basin, California Sedimentology of subaqueous volcaniclastic sediment gravity flows in the Neogene Santa Maria Basin, California
Subaqueous tuff deposits within the lower Miocene Lospe Formation of the Santa Maria Basin, California, are up to 20 m thick and were deposited by high density turbidity flows after large volumes of ash were supplied to the basin and remobilized. Tuff units in the Lospe Formation include a lower lithofacies assemblage of planar bedded tuff that grades upward into massive tuff, which in...
Authors
Ronald B. Cole, Richard G. Stanley
Non-USGS Publications**
Garrison, R.E., Stanley, R.G., and Horan, L.J., 1979, Middle Miocene sedimentation on the southwestern edge of the Lockwood High, Monterey County, California, in Graham, S.A., ed., Tertiary and Quaternary geology of the Salinas Valley and Santa Lucia Range, Monterey County, California: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (SEPM), Pacific Section, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Field Guide 4, p. 51–65.
Stanley, R.G., 1981, Middle Jurassic shoaling of the Central High Atlas sea near Rich, Morocco: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 51, no. 3, p. 895–907.
Stanley, R.G., 1982, Rocks and landforms, chap. 2, in Warrick, S.F., ed., The natural history of the U.C. Santa Cruz campus: Santa Cruz, University of California, Environmental Field Program Publication No. 11, p. 35–103.
Stanley, R.G., and McCaffrey, Robert, 1983, Extent and offset history of the Ben Lomond fault, Santa Cruz County, California, in Andersen, D.W., and Rymer, M.J., eds., Tectonics and sedimentation along faults of the San Andreas system: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Publication 30, p. 79–90.
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Filter Total Items: 73
Preliminary report on petroleum source potential and thermal maturity of the Lospe Formation (lower Miocene) near Point Sal, onshore Santa Maria Basin, California Preliminary report on petroleum source potential and thermal maturity of the Lospe Formation (lower Miocene) near Point Sal, onshore Santa Maria Basin, California
No abstract available.
Authors
Richard G. Stanley, M. J. Pawlewicz, D.R. Vork, S. Y. Johnson, Z. C. Valin
The "checkerboard method"; a new way to estimate the numbers of undiscovered hydrocarbon accumulations in sparsely drilled areas The "checkerboard method"; a new way to estimate the numbers of undiscovered hydrocarbon accumulations in sparsely drilled areas
No abstract available.
Authors
Richard G. Stanley
Geochemical evaluation of coal from the Tertiary Usibelli Group, Usibelli mine, Alaska, one of the lowest sulfur coals mined in the United States Geochemical evaluation of coal from the Tertiary Usibelli Group, Usibelli mine, Alaska, one of the lowest sulfur coals mined in the United States
The Nenana coal basin extends 240 km in length and 1.5-50 krn in width along the northern foothills of the Alaska Range in central Alaska. Located at the western end of the Nenana basin is the Usibelli Coal Mine, approximately 120 km southwest of Fairbanks. The Tertiary Usibelli Group consists of coal-bearing fluvial and lacustrine sedimentary deposits that were derived from the Yukon...
Authors
Ronald H. Affolter, Gary D. Stricker, Richard G. Stanley
Middle Tertiary extension recorded by lacustrine fan-delta deposits, Plush Ranch Basin, western Transverse Ranges, California Middle Tertiary extension recorded by lacustrine fan-delta deposits, Plush Ranch Basin, western Transverse Ranges, California
The Plush Ranch Formation (upper Oligocene and lower Miocene) consists of more than 1800 m of nonmarine sedimentary and volcanic rocks that record the history of an extensional basin referred to here as the Plush Ranch basin. Distinctive depositional facies, provenance, and sediment transport directions along each basin margin suggest an asymmetric basin shape that is consistent with a...
Authors
Ronald B. Cole, Richard G. Stanley
Preliminary Geologic Map of the Big Pine Mountain Quadrangle, California Preliminary Geologic Map of the Big Pine Mountain Quadrangle, California
Reconnaissance geologic mapping of the San Rafael Primitive Area (now the San Rafael Wilderness) by Gower and others (1966) and Vedder an others (1967) showed s number of stratigraphic and structural ambiguities. To help resolve some of those problems, additional field work was done on parts of the Big Pine Moutain quadrangle during short intervals in 1981 and 1984, and 1990-1994.
Authors
J. G. Vedder, Hugh McLean, R. G. Stanley
Sedimentology of subaqueous volcaniclastic sediment gravity flows in the Neogene Santa Maria Basin, California Sedimentology of subaqueous volcaniclastic sediment gravity flows in the Neogene Santa Maria Basin, California
Subaqueous tuff deposits within the lower Miocene Lospe Formation of the Santa Maria Basin, California, are up to 20 m thick and were deposited by high density turbidity flows after large volumes of ash were supplied to the basin and remobilized. Tuff units in the Lospe Formation include a lower lithofacies assemblage of planar bedded tuff that grades upward into massive tuff, which in...
Authors
Ronald B. Cole, Richard G. Stanley
Non-USGS Publications**
Garrison, R.E., Stanley, R.G., and Horan, L.J., 1979, Middle Miocene sedimentation on the southwestern edge of the Lockwood High, Monterey County, California, in Graham, S.A., ed., Tertiary and Quaternary geology of the Salinas Valley and Santa Lucia Range, Monterey County, California: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (SEPM), Pacific Section, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Field Guide 4, p. 51–65.
Stanley, R.G., 1981, Middle Jurassic shoaling of the Central High Atlas sea near Rich, Morocco: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 51, no. 3, p. 895–907.
Stanley, R.G., 1982, Rocks and landforms, chap. 2, in Warrick, S.F., ed., The natural history of the U.C. Santa Cruz campus: Santa Cruz, University of California, Environmental Field Program Publication No. 11, p. 35–103.
Stanley, R.G., and McCaffrey, Robert, 1983, Extent and offset history of the Ben Lomond fault, Santa Cruz County, California, in Andersen, D.W., and Rymer, M.J., eds., Tectonics and sedimentation along faults of the San Andreas system: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Publication 30, p. 79–90.
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.