Understanding the Monterey formation and similar biosiliceous units across space and time /

"This volume presents a collection of recent studies on the Monterey and other similar biosiliceous deposits that offer modern and updated interpretations of this classic unit and its analogues"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Aiello, Ivano W. (Editor), Barron, John A. (Editor), Ravelo, A. Christina (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colorado, USA : The Geological Society of America, Inc., 2022.
Series:Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 556.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Depositional and diagenetic controls on the mechanical properties of rocks in the Monterey formation of the Santa Maria Basin, California / John B. Donhum
  • An observational approach to mudstone sequence stratigraphy: the Monterey formation of California / Jon R. Schwalbach and Kevin M. Bohacs
  • Compositional and diagenetic control of bed- to formational-scale deformation in siliceous sedimentary rocks, Santa Maria Basin, California / Yannick Wirtz and Richard J. Behl
  • Nanometer scale pore structure and the Monterey Formation: a new tool to investigate silica diagenesis / Cynthia M. Ross and Anthony R. Kovscek
  • Middle Miocene climate-carbon cycle dynamics: keys for understanding future trends on a warmer earth? / Ann Holbourn, Wolfgang Kuhnt, Karlos G. D. Kochhann, Kenji M. Matsuzaki, and Nils Andersen
  • Refined assessment of the paleoceanographic and tectonic influences on the deposition of the Monterey Formation in California / John A. Barron
  • Relationship of organic carbon deposition in the Monterey Formation to the Monterey excursion event based on an updated chromostratigraphic framework of the Naples Beach section, California / Gregg H. Blake
  • Tephrochronology of the Miocene Monterey and Modelo Formations, California / Jeffrey R. Knott, Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki, John A. Barron, Elmira Wan, Lynn Heizler, and Priscilla Martinez
  • Miocene terrestrial paleoclimates inferred from pollen in the Monterey Formation, Naples Coastal Bluffs section, California / Linda E. Heusser, John A. Barron, Gregg H. Blake, and Jon Nichols
  • Middle and late Miocene marine mammal assemblages from the Monterey Formation of Orange County, California / James F. Parham, John A. Barron, and Jorge Velez-Juarbe
  • Biosiliceous, organic-rich, and phosphatic facies of Triassic strata of northwest Alaska: transect across a high-latitude low-angle continental margin / Julie A. Dumoulin, Katherine J. Whidden, William A. Rouse, Richard O. Lease, Adam Boehlke, and Paul O'Sullivan
  • Chemostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic framework of the Eocene Kreyenhagen Formation, Kettleman area, central San Joaquin Basin, California / Leo G. Giannetta and Richard J. Behl
  • Gamma-ray attenuation bulk density as an indicator of diatom valve abundance and fragmentation in Pleistocene biosiliceous sediments of the Bering Sea / Michelle K. Drake, Ivano W. Aiello, and A. Christian Ravelo.