Measuring vertical tectonic motion at the intersection of the Santa Cruz-Catalina Ridge and Northern Channel Islands platform, California Continental Borderland, using submerged paleoshorelines

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 1053-1071

  Chaytor, Jason D ^a,b   Goldfinger, Chris ^a   Meiner, Melissa A ^a,c   Huftile, Gary J ^d   Romsos, Christopher G ^a   Legg, Mark R ^e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e Legg Geophysical   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathymetry; Radiocarbon dating; Sea level; Structural geology; Submersibles

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CALIFORNIA; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HOLOCENE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MULTI-BEAM BATHYMETRY; PALEOSHORELINES; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL; SHORELINE POSITIONS; STRAIN MARKERS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMERSIBLES; TECTONIC MOTIONS; TECTONIC MOVEMENTS;

HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTERSECTIONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TECTONICS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

BATHYMETRY;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; BATHYMETRY; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PLATE MOTION; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE; SLIP RATE; SUBMERSIBLE; TECTONIC ROTATION; TRANSPRESSION; TRIPLE JUNCTION; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; CHANNEL ISLANDS [CALIFORNIA]; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA CRUZ ISLAND; TRANSVERSE RANGES; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 49749142041     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26316.1     Document Type: Article

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