Magnetostratigraphy and biochronology of the San Timoteo Badlands, southern California, with implications for local Pliocene-Pleistocene tectonic and depositional patterns

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1265-1293

  Albright III, L Barry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Museum Northern Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DEPOSITION; MAMMALS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONICS;

CLOCKWISE ROTATION; CONTINUOUS DEPOSITION; COUNTERCLOCKWISE DIRECTIONS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TECTONIC EVENTS; TERRESTRIAL SEQUENCES;

LANDFORMS;

BADLANDS; BIOCHRONOLOGY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; TECTONIC SETTING;

CALIFORNIA; SAN TIMOTEO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033372429     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1265:MABOTS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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