Mark Garcia

Updates 08/15/2013

 
 
I’m a Research Technician in the Geology Department at Caltech. My job is to maintain the division mineral, rock, meteorite & fossil collection for all research and academic needs. I’m also responsible for the division 
field vehicles, rock shipping & storage, maintain classrooms, provide training & maintenance of the division rock crushing, cutting, drilling and polishing equipment. 

Our online Collection Database currently contains photos & information of more than 32,400 minerals, rocks, meteorites & fossils that are currently in the division.

This database contains the following collections:
Mineral Reference Collection
Working Mineral Collection for classroom and teaching use
Rock Collection
GPS Mineral Museum display minerals (Gem Room)
Meteorite Collection
Thesis Rock Collection
Fossil Collection 
http://www.gps.caltech.eduhttp://www.caltech.eduhttp://collections.gps.caltech.edu/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=collections&-loadframesshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2

Mark Garcia

Research Technician

California Institute of Technology

Division of Geologic & Planetary Sciences

Mail Code 170-25

Pasadena, Ca 91125


  1. (626)395-6142

mgarcia@gps.caltech.edu

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