The collection contains materials produced by the Institute for Crustal Studies (ICS), Earth Research Institute (ERI)'s predecessor, as well as materials compiled and collected by Pete Hall produced for geological surveys completed for the purpose of oil, gas and water well drilling in California.

The Earth Research Institute (ERI) is a UC Santa Barbara Organized Research Unit (ORU) focusing on supporting research and education in the sciences of the solid, fluid, and living Earth, to examine how Earth processes affect mankind and how mankind perturbs the Earth. ERI was founded in 2010, merging UCSB's Institute for Crustal Studies (ICS) and Institute for Computational Earth Systems Science (ICESS). The ICS was established as an interdisciplinary unit focused on the Earth's crust, with a key consideration for "deep time." The ICESS was established also as an interdisciplinary unit, to increase understanding of global environmental changes and assessing their impacts on the Earth and society.

9.18 Linear Feet; (20 legal document boxes, and 4 half-size legal document boxes)

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

The collection is open for research.