Cenozoic Basin Development of Coastal California
Title | Cenozoic Basin Development of Coastal California PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond V. Ingersoll |
Publisher | Prentice Hall |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Nearshore Marine Paleoclimatic Regions, Increasing Zoogeographic Provinciality, Molluscan Extinctions, and Paleoshorelines, California
Title | Nearshore Marine Paleoclimatic Regions, Increasing Zoogeographic Provinciality, Molluscan Extinctions, and Paleoshorelines, California PDF eBook |
Author | Clarence A. Hall |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780813723570 |
Approximately 3000 middle and late Cenozoic nearshore marine molluscan taxa from western California are assigned to six time periods, spanning ~25 m.y. In this interdisciplinary study, western California is palinspastically restored for each of the time periods by backsliding and back-rotating large fault blocks or crustal units. Marine fossil assemblages are assigned to nearshore paleoclimatic regions or water masses within palinspastically restored California. In addition, this volume reveals positive feedback mechanisms between paleolatitudinal changes in sea-surface paleotemperature gradients and changes in the diversity of marine mollusks along the California coast through time; defines "equable" based effective temperatures; and analyzes extinction rates among macroinvertebrate marine taxa from coastal California and the possible causes of these extinctions. The late Paleogene to Neogene faunas reflect an increase in faunal diversity related to strengthened temperature gradients, greater extremes in sea-surface temperatures, reduction in temperateness, and the development of an embayed California coastline.
The Cenozoic Evolution of the San Joaquin Valley, California
Title | The Cenozoic Evolution of the San Joaquin Valley, California PDF eBook |
Author | J. Alan Bartow |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Geology |
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Field Guide to the Late Cenozoic Subduction Tectonics & Sedimentation of Northern Coastal California
Title | Field Guide to the Late Cenozoic Subduction Tectonics & Sedimentation of Northern Coastal California PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Geology |
ISBN |
Cenozoic Basins of the Death Valley Region
Title | Cenozoic Basins of the Death Valley Region PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Albert Wright |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780813723334 |
Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, and Provenance: A Celebration of the Career of William R. Dickinson
Title | Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, and Provenance: A Celebration of the Career of William R. Dickinson PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond V. Ingersoll |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 768 |
Release | 2017-12-28 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0813725402 |
Through a remarkable combination of intellect, self-confidence, engaging humility, and prodigious output of published work, William R. Dickinson influenced and challenged three generations of sedimentary geologists, igneous petrologists, tectonicists, sandstone petrologists, archaeologists, and other geoscientists. A key figure in the plate-tectonic revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, he explained how the distribution of sediments on Earth's surface could be traced to tectonic processes, and is widely recognized as a founder of modern sedimentary basin analysis. This volume consists of 31 chapters related to Dickinson's research interests; many of the authors are his former students, their students, and their students' students, demonstrating his continuing profound influence. The papers in this volume are an impressive tribute to the depth and breadth of Bill Dickinson's contributions to the geosciences.
Evolution of Ridge Basin, Southern California
Title | Evolution of Ridge Basin, Southern California PDF eBook |
Author | John C. Crowell |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780813723679 |