Refer to the list below for more literature on the geology of the City of Rocks and Idaho in general.
Anderson, A.L., 1931, Geology and mineral resources of eastern Cassia County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 14, 169p.
Anderson, A.L., 1934, Contact phenomena associated with the Cassia batholith, Idaho: Journal of Geology, v. 42, p. 376-392.
Armstrong, R.L., 1968, Mantled gneiss domes in the Albion Range, southern Idaho: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 79, p. 1295-1314.
Armstrong, R.L., 1976, The geochronometry of Idaho: Isochron/West, n. 15, p. 1-33.
Armstrong, R.L., and Hills, F., 1967, Rubidium-strontium and potassium-argon geochronologic studies of mantled gneiss domes, Albion Range, southern Idaho, USA: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 3, p. 114-124.
Armstrong, R.L., Smith, J.F., Covington, H.R., and Williams, P.L., 1978, Preliminary geologic map of the west half of the Pocatello 1° X 2° quadrangle, Idaho: US Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-533.
Bandy, P.J., 1992, Structural and kinematic analysis of the City of Rocks lobe of the Almo pluton, Cassia County, Idaho: An application of granite tectonics: unpublished M.S. thesis, Idaho State University, Pocatello, 105 p.
Bergbaur, S. and Martel, S.J., 1999, Formation of joints in cooling plutons: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 21, p. 821-835.
Bodnar, T., 1983, Petrography of the Green Creek complex, central and southern Albion Range, Cassia County, Idaho: unpublished M.S. thesis, Idaho State University, Pocatello, 82 p.
Bonnichsen, Bill, C.M. White, and Michael McCurry, eds., 2002, Tectonic and Magmatic Evolution of the Snake River Plain Volcanic Province: Idaho Geological Survey Bulletin, n. 30, 482p.
Camilleri, P., Yonkee, A., Coogan, J., DeCelles, P., McGrew, A, and Wells, M., 1997, Hinterland to foreland transect through the Sevier orogen, northeast Nevada to north central Utah: structural style, metamorphism, and kinematic history of a large contractional orogenic wedge, in Link, P.K. and Kowallis, B.J., eds., Proterozoic to Recent stratigraphy, tectonics, and volcanology, Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Central Mexico: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, v. 42, p. 297-324.
Compton, R.R., 1972, Geologic map of the Yost quadrangle, Box Elder County, Utah and Cassia County, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-672, scale 1:31,680.
Compton, R.R., 1975, Geologic map of the Park Valley quadrangle, Box Elder County, Utah and Cassia County, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-873, scale 1:31,680.
Coney, P.J., 1978, Mesozoic-Cenozoic Cordilleran plate tectonics, in Smith, R.B. and Eaton, G.P., eds., Cenozoic tectonics and regional geophysics of the western Cordillera: Geological Society of America Memoir 152, p. 33-50.
Coney, P.J., 1980, Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes: An overview, in Crittenden, M.D., Coney, P.J., and Davis, G.H., eds., Cordilleran Metamorphic Core Complexes: Geological Society of America Memoir 153, p. 7-31.
Covington, H.R., 1983, Sructural evolution of the Raft River Basin, Idaho, in Miller, D.M., Todd, V.R., and Howard, K.A., eds., Tectonic and Stratigraphic Studies in the eastern Great Basin: Geological Society of America Memoir 157, p. 229-238.
Cook, R., Warren, A., and Goudie, A., 1993, Desert Geomorphology: University College London Press, London, 526p.
Cunningham, F.F., 1971, The Silent City of Rocks, a bornhardt landscape in the Cotterel Range, south Idaho, USA: Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, v.15, p 404-429.
DeCelles, P.G., 2004, Late Jurassic to Eocene evolution of the Cordilleran thrust belt and foreland basin system, western U.S.A.: American Journal of Science, v. 304, p.105-168.
Dorn, R.I., 1998, Rock Coatings: Developments in Earth Surface Processes: Elsevier, Amsterdam, 429p.
Dzulynski, S. and Kotarba, A., 1979, Solution pans and their bearing on the development of pediments and tors in granite: Zeitschrift fuer Geomorphologie, v. 23, p. 172-191.
Gurney, J.W., 1968, Contacts of the Almo pluton, Albion Range, Cassia County, Idaho: unpublished M.S. thesis, Idaho State University, Pocatello, 151 p.
Hedges, J., 1969, Opferkessel: Zeitschrift fuer Geomorphologie, v. 13, p. 22-55.
Holzhausen, G.R., 1989, Origin of sheet structure, 1. Morphology and boundary conditions: Engineering Geology, v. 27, p. 225-278.
Hunt, T.H., 1989, Silent City of Rocks: Overland Journal, v. 7, n. 4, p. 13-23.
Lee, M.R. and Parsons, I., 1999, Biomechanical and biochemical weathering of lichen-encrusted granite: textural controls on organic-mineral interactions and deposition of silica-rich layers: Chemical Geology, v. 161, p. 385-397.
Link, P.K. and Phoenix, E.C., 1996, Rocks, rails, and trails: Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello, 194p.
Martin, C.W., 1989, Geology of Silent City of Rocks: Overland Journal, v. 7, n. 4, p. 24-27.
Miller, D.M., 1980, Structural geology of the northern Albion Mountains, south-central Idaho, in Crittenden, M.D., Coney, P.J., and Davis, G.H., eds., Cordilleran Metamorphic Core Complexes: Geological Society of America Memoir 153, p. 399-423.
Miller, D.M., 1983, Allochthonous quartzite sequence in the Albion Mountains, Idaho, and proposed Proterozoic Z and Cambrian correlatives in the Pilot Range, Utah and Nevada, in Miller, D.M., Todd, V.R., and Howard, K.A., eds., Tectonic and Stratigraphic Studies in the eastern Great Basin: Geological Society of America Memoir 157, p. 191-213.
Miller, D.M., 1983, Strain on a gneiss dome in the Albion Mountains metamorphic core complex, Idaho: American Journal of Science, v. 283, p.605-632.
Miller, D.M., 1991, Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the northeastern Great Basin, in Buffa, R.H. and Coyner, A.R., eds., Geology and ore deposits of the Great Basin: Geological Society of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, p. 202-228.
Miller, D.M., and Bedford, D.R., 1999, Pluton intrusion styles roof subsidence and stoping, and timing of extensional shear zones in the City of Rocks National Reserve, Albion Mountains, southern Idaho, in Spangler, L.E. and Allen, C.J., eds., Geology of northern Utah and vicinity: Utah Geological Association Publication 27, p.11-26.
Miller, D.M., Armstrong, R.L., Compton, R.R., and Todd, V.R., 1983, Geology of the Albion-Raft River-Grouse Creek Mountains area, northwestern Utah and southern Idaho, in Gurgel, K.D., ed., Geologic excursions in the overthrust belt and metamorphic core complexes of the intermountain region: Utah Geological and Mineral Survey Special Studies 59, p. 1-62.
Mustoe, G.E., 1982, The origin of honeycomb weathering: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 93, p. 108-115.
Neuendorf, K.K.E., Mehl, J.P., and Jackson, J.A., eds., 2005, Glossary of Geology, 5th Edition: American Geological Institute, Alexandria, Virginia, 800p.
Ollier, C., 1969, Weathering: American Elsevier Publishing Co., New York, 304p.
Pierce, K.L., Covington, H.R., Williams, P.L, and McIntyre, D.H., 1983, Geologic Map of the Cotterel Mountains and the northern Raft River Valley, Cassia County, Idaho: US Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigation Series, map I-1450, scale 1:48,000.
Pierce, K.L. and Morgan, L.A., 1992, The track of the Yellowstone hot spot: volcanism, faulting, and uplift, in Link, P.K., Kuntz, M.A., and Platt, L.B., eds., Regional geology of eastern Idaho and western Wyoming: Geological Society of America Memoir 179, p. 1-54.
Pogue, K.R. and Karabinos, P., 2001, Landscape evolution in the City of Rocks National Reserve: Proceedings, Fourteenth Annual Keck Geology Consortium Undergraduate Research Symposium, p. 157-161.
Pogue, K.R., Carson, R.J., and Clark, D.H., 2003, Quaternary geology of the Albion Mountains, southern Idaho: Proceedings, Sixteenth Annual Keck Geology Consortium Undergraduate Research Symposium, p. 46-50.
Pogue, K.R., 2008, Etched in Stone, The Geology of City of Rocks National Reserve and Castle Rocks State Park, Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Information Circular 63, Moscow, Idaho, 132 p.
Pollard, D.D. and Aydin, A., 1988, Progress in understanding jointing over the past century: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 1181-1204.
Snoke, A.W., and Miller, D.M., 1988, Metamorphic and tectonic history of the northeastern Great Basin, in Ernst, W.G., ed., Metamorphism and crustal evolution of the western United States: Rubey Volume VII, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, p. 607-648.
Stewart, J.H., 1978, Basin-range structure in western North America: A review, in Smith, R.B. and Eaton, G.P., eds., Cenozoic tectonics and regional geophysics of the western Cordillera: Geological Society of America Memoir 152, p. 1-32.
Thomas, M.F., 1974, Granite landforms: a review of some recurrent problems of interpretation, in Brown, E.H. and Waters, R.S., eds., Progress in Geomorphology, Institute of British Geographers Special Publication No. 7, p. 13-37.
Twidale, C.R., 1971, Structural landforms: landforms associated with granitic rocks, faults and folded strata: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 247p.
Twidale, C.R., 1982a, Granite Landforms: Elsevier, Amsterdam, 372p.
Twidale, C.R., 1982b, The evolution of bornhardts: American Scientist, v. 70, p. 268-276.
Twidale, C.R., 1993, The research frontier and beyond: granitic terrains: Geomorphology, v. 7, p. 187-223.
Twidale, C.R., 2002, The two-stage concept of landform and landscape development involving etching: origin, development and implications of an idea: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 57, p. 37-74.
Twidale, C.R., 2022. Distribution and morphology of the bedrock basins known as pans in a granite inselberg lanbdscape: Journal of Geology, v. 130, p. 311-324.
Twidale, C.R. and Bourne, J.A., 1975, Episodic exposure of inselbergs: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 86, p. 1473-1481.
Twidale, C.R., and Harrell, J.A, 2023, Flared slopes: The work of water or fire?, Earth-Science Reviews 247, p. 1-17.
Wells, M.W., 1984, City of Rocks and Granite Pass, in Kerns, G.J. and Kerns, R.L., eds., Geology of northwest Utah, southern Idaho, and northeast Nevada: Utah Geological Association Publication 13, p. 15-19.
Wells, M.L., Hoisch, T.D., Hanson, L.M., Wolff, E.D., and Struthers, J.R., 1997, Large magnitude crustal thickening and repeated extensional exhumation in the Raft River, Grouse creek, and Albion Mountains, in Link, P.K. and Kowallis, B.J., eds., Proterozoic to Recent stratigraphy, tectonics, and volcanology, Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Central Mexico: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, v. 42, p. 325-340
Wells, M.L., Hoisch, T.D., Peters, M.T., Miller, D.M., Wolff, E.D., and Hanson, L.M., 1998, The Mahoghany Peaks fault, a Late Cretaceous-Paleocene(?) normal fault in the hinterland of the Sevier orogen: Journal of Geology, v. 106, p. 623-634.
Williams, P.R., Covington, H.R., and Pierce, K.L., 1982, Cenozoic Stratigraphy and Tectonic Evolution of the Raft River Basin, Idaho, in Bill Bonnichsen and Breckenridge, R.M., eds., Cenozoic Geology of Idaho: Idaho Geological Survey Bulletin, n. 26, p. 491-504.
Williams, R., and Robinson, D., 1989, Origin and distribution of polygonal cracking of rock surfaces: Geografiska Annaler, v. 71, p. 145-159.
Young, A.R.M., 1987, Salt as an agent in the development of cavernous weathering: Geology, v. 15, p. 962-966.
