Mark Garcia

Updates 4/12/2012

 
 
I’m the curator 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 also help facilitate with rock storage & maintain the division crushing, cutting, drilling and polishing equipment.

Our online division Collection Database currently contains information about more than 31,83o minerals, rocks, meteorites & fossils. 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 (Photos of 406 fossils now in database)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

California Institute of Technology

Division of Geologic & Planetary Sciences

Mail Code 170-25, Pasadena, Ca 91125


  1. (626)395-6551

nova@its.caltech.edu

Search our GPS Collection Databasehttp://collections.gps.caltech.edu/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=collections&-loadframesshapeimage_5_link_0