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Published June 2006: Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region, California Natural History Guide Series No. 79, University of California Press.

History of San Francisco Bay, Early Paleozoic environments, regional geology

Sloan, Doris, 2006, Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region, California Natural History Guide Series No. 79, Berkeley, University of California Press, 318p.

Schweikhardt, P., D. Sloan, and B.L. Ingram, 2003, Timescales of variation in San Francisco Bay, Northern California, and measurement proxies (abs.), XIV INQUA Congress, July 23-30, 2003, Reno, NV.

McGann, Mary, Sloan, Doris, and Wan, Elmira, 2002, Biostratigraphy Beneath Central San Francisco Bay along the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Transect, p. 11-28 in Parsons, Tom, ed., Crustal Structure of the Coastal and Marine San Francisco Bay Region, California, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1658, 145p.

Schweikhardt, P., D. Sloan, and B.L. Ingram, 2002, Paleoenvironmental change during the Holocene and Last Interglacial, San Pablo Bay, Northern California (abs.), American Geophysical Union, Fall 2002 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

McGann, M., D. Sloan, and A.N. Cohen, 2000, Invasion by a Japanese marine microorganism in Western North America, Hydrobiologia, v. 421, p. 25-30.

Sloan, D., and M. McGann, 2000, New locales for Trochammina hadai, an invasive Japanese foraminifer, in the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound (abs.), Cordilleran Section, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, No. 6, p. 68-69.

Moores, E.M., D. Sloan, and D.L. Stout, eds., 1999, Classic Cordilleran concepts: A view from California: Boulder, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 338, 489p. + CD.

McGann, M., and D. Sloan, 1999, Benthic foraminifers in the Regional Monitoring Program's San Francisco Estuary samples: Richmond, San Francisco Estuary Institute, San Francisco Estuary Regional Monitoring Program for trace substances, 1997 Annual Report, p. 249-258.

Sloan, D., M. McGann, and E. Wan, 1998, Microfossils Refine Caltrans' Geotechnical Stratigraphy beneath Central San Francio Bay for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Retrofit Project (abs.), Conference on Integrative Paleontology and the Future, Univeristy of California Museum of Paleontology, Feb. 28, 1998, Abstracts, p. 12.

McGann, Mary, and Doris Sloan, 1998, Anthropogenic Introduction of Exotic Organisms: Implications for Accelerated Colonization Rates of Fossil Organisms (abs.), Conference on Integrative Paleontology and the Future, Univeristy of California Museum of Paleontology, Feb. 28, 1998, Abstracts, p. 9.

Wilkerson, F. D., E. Edlund, D. Sloan and G. Curtis, 1997, Periglacial Activity in the White Mountains of California (abs.), American Geophysical Union, EOS Transactions.

McGann, Mary, and Doris Sloan, 1997, Stratigraphy Beneath Central San Francisco Bay: New Data from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Retrofit Project (Abs.), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 6.

Edlund, E.G., D. Sloan and G. Curtis, 1997, High Spatial Survey Methods: White Mountain Boulder Train Project, Association of American Geographers, 1997 Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX.

Sloan, D., P.L. Williams, B.L. Ingram, and L. Wells, 1966, Using Delta Stratigraphy to Determine a Late Quaternary Slip Rate across the Pittsburg Blind Thrust Fault, Pittsburg, CA (abs.), American Geophysical Union, Fall 1996 Annual Meeting.

Sloan, D. and M. McGann, 1996, Seasonal Distribution Patterns of Japanese Foraminifer Recently Introduced into San Francisco Bay, 3rd Biennial State of the Estuary Conference, San Francisco Bay Friends of the Estuary, Oct. 10-12, 1996.

Sloan, D. and M. McGann, 1996, Documenting the Introduction of Estuarine Foraminifers: a San Francisco Bay Study, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, in press.

McGann, M., and D. Sloan, 1996, Introduced Japanese Foraminifer, Trochammina hadai Uchio present in Recent sediments of San Francisco and Humboldt Bays, California; absent in Coos Bay, Oregon, Abstracts with Programs, Cordilleran Section, Geological Society of America, v. 28, no. 5.

McGann, M., and D. Sloan, 1996, Invasion of San Francisco Bay, California by foraminifer Trochammina hadai rivals that of Asian clam Potamocorbula amurensis, 77th annual Meeting, Absttracts with Programs, Pacific Section, American Association for the Advancement of Science, v. 15, pt. 1, p. 47.

McGann, M., and D. Sloan, 1996, Recent Introduction of the Foraminifer Trochammina hadai Uchio into San Francisco Bay, California, USA, Marine Micropaleontology, v. 28, pp. 1-3.

McGann, M., and D. Sloan, 1995, Trochammina hadai Uchio: Recently Introduced Japanese Foraminifer in San Francisco Bay, California (abs.), American Geophysical Union, EOS Transactions, v. 76, no. 46, p. 290.

Sloan, D., 1995, Use of foraminiferal biostratigraphy in mitigating pollution and seismic problems, San Francisco, California, Journal of Foraminiferal Research, v. 25, no. 3, p. 260-266.

Sloan, D., 1994, Chemistry Projects in the UCB Environmental Sciences Major (abs.), American Chemical Society, Symposium on Environmental Chemistry Education, San Diego, March, 1994.

Sloan, D., 1993, Foraminiferal biostratigraphy used for solving earthquake response and pollution problems in San Francisco Bay (abs.), Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, v. 25 (no. 6), p. 138.

Sloan, D., 1992, The Yerba Buena mud, record of the last-interglacial predecessor of San Francisco Bay, California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 104, p. 716-727.

Ingram, B. L., and D. Sloan, 1992, Strontium isotopic composition of estuarine sediments as paleosalinity-paleoclimate indicator, Science, v. 255, p. 68-72.

Sloan, D., and B. Aubry, 1991, Pleistocene Sea Level History of San Francisco Bay (abs.), Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, v. 23 (2), p. 66.

Sloan, D., and D. Wagner, eds., 1991. Geologic Excursions in Northern California: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada, California Division of Mines and Geology, Special Publication 109, 130p.

Ingram, B. L., D. J. DePaolo, D. Sloan, and W. B. N. Berry, 1991. Paleosalinity Record in San Francisco Bay during the Sangamon Interglacial: an Isotopic Approach (abs.), Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section, v. 23 (2), p. 37.

Wahrhaftig, Clyde, and D. Sloan, eds., 1989. Geology of San Francisco and Vicinity, Field Trip Guidebook T105, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 69p.

Quinby-Hunt, M.S., D. Sloan, and P. Wilde, 1987. Potential Environmental Impacts of Closed-Cycle Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, v. 7:2.

Sloan, D. and C. Brunner, 1986. Late Pleistocene and Holocene (?) faulting beneath San Francisco Bay, California. U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report, v. XXII, p. 112-114.

Quinby-Hunt, M.S., D. Sloan, A.T. Dengler, and P. Wilde, 1985. Environmental Assessment: Construction of an Expanded Facility for the Seacoast Test Facility, Stage 2 (STF-2) at the National Energy Laboratory of Hawaii (NELH). Marine Sciences Group, Paleontology Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA, MSG 85-024.

Sloan, D., 1985. Terrestrial and Marine Geology at Ke-ahole Point, Hawaii. Report prepared for the Marine Sciences Group, Paleontology Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA, MSG 85-006.

Sloan, D., D.W. Andersen and C.A. Suczek, 1984. Significance of Interbedded Carbonate and Channel-form Quartzite: Constraints on Westernmost Facies of the Mid-Ordovician Cordilleran Miogeocline (abs.), Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, v. 16 (6), p. 659.

Sloan, D., and R. A. Laws, 1983. Preliminary evidence for Pleistocene faulting beneath San Francisco Bay. Symposium on Late Cenozoic Tectonics and Sedimentation along Faults of the San Andreas System (abs.). Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Sacramento, CA, p. 133-4.

Sloan, D., and R. A. Laws, 1982. Sangamon Depositional Environments in central San Francisco Bay (abs.). Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 14 (4), p. 234.

Sloan, D., 1981. Pleistocene estuarine deposits beneath Central San Francisco Bay: Evidence for high sea level or low river discharge (abs.), Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 13 (7), p. 556.

Laws, R. A., D., Sloan,, and W.B.N., Berry, 1980. Sangamon(?) central San Francisco Bay, Abstr., Amer. Assoc. Adv. Science, Annual Mtg, Davis, CA.

Sloan, D., 1980. Foraminifera of Sangamon (?) estuarine deposits beneath Central San Francisco Bay, California, in Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 4: Quaternary Paleogeography of the Western United States, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, p. 1-12.

Sloan, D., 1980. Foraminifera of the Sangamon (?) Central San Francisco Bay, California. Abstracts, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, 1980 Annual Mtg., Bakersfield, p. 37.

Sprunt, E.S., L.A. Dengler, and D. Sloan, 1978. Effects of metamorphism on quartz cathodoluminescence, Geology, v. 6:5, p. 305-308.

Sloan, D., 1976. Middle Ordovician environments of deposition, Mazourka Canyon, Inyo Co., California, in Moore, J.M., and A.E. Fritsche, eds., Depositional Environments of Lower Paleozoic Rocks in the White-Inyo Mountains. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Field Guide 1, p. 61-69.