Late Quaternary sediment-accumulation rates within the inner basins of the California Continental Borderland in support of geologic hazard evaluation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 454, Issue , 2009, Pages 117-139

  Normark, William R ^a   Mcgann, Mary ^a   Sliter, Ray W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FAULTING; FLOORS; PISTONS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS;

NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; SAN DIEGO , CALIFORNIA; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TURBIDITE SYSTEMS; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

HAZARDS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CORE ANALYSIS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FAULT ZONE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL HAZARD; HOLOCENE; MASS MOVEMENT; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SLOPE; TURBIDITE;

CALIFORNIA; SAN DIEGO; SANTA BARBARA [CALIFORNIA]; SANTA MONICA BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75149178194     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2454(2.6)     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Alexander, C.R., and Lee, H.J., 2009, this volume, Sediment accumulation on the Southern California Bight continental margin during the twentieth century, in Lee, H.J., and Normark, W.R., eds., Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland: Geological Society of America Special Paper 454, doi: 10.1130/2009.2454(2.4).
2. Barron, J.A., Heusser, L., Herbert, T., and Lyle, M., 2003, High-resolution climatic evolution of coastal northern California during the past 16,000 years: Paleoceanography, v. 18, 10.1029/2002PA000768,
3. Behl, R., and Kennett, J.P., 1996, Brief interstadial events in the Santa Barbara basin, NE Pacific, during the past 60 kyr: Nature, v. 379, p. 243-246.
4. Behl, R.J., Kennett, J.P., Hill, T.M., Pak, D., Schimmelmann, A., Cannariato, K.G., Nicholson, C., Hopkins, S.E., Team, S., 2005, Extending the high-resolution global climate record in Santa Barbara Basin: Developing a more continuous composite section from overlapping Cores: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 86, no.52, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract PP51D-0636.
5. Christensen, C.J., Gorsline, D.S., Hammond, D.W., and Lund, S.P., 1994, Nonannual laminations and expansion of anoxic basin floor conditions in Santa Monica Basin, California Borderland, over the past four centuries: Marine Geology, v. 116, p. 399-418, doi: 10.1016/0025-3227(94)90054-X.
6. Coastal Morphology Group, 2005, Living with coastal change then and now: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, http://coastalchange.ucsd.edu/st1- thenandnow/.
7. Covault, J.A., Normark, W.R., and Graham, S.A., 2006, Source to sink continuity through relative sea-level changes from OIS 3 to the present: Only the pathway changes in the California Borderland: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 87, no.52, Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract OS23A-1632.
8. Dartnell, P., and Gardner, J.V., 2009, this volume, Seafloor terrain analysis and geomorphology of the greater Los Angeles margin and San Pedro Basin, Southern California, in Lee, H.J., and Normark, W.R., eds., Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland: Geological Society of America Special Paper 454, doi: 10.1130/2009.2454(1.2).
9. Fisher, M.A., Normark, W.R., Bohannon, R.G., Sliter, R.W., and Calvert, A.J., 2003, Geology of the continental margin beneath Santa Monica Bay, Southern California, from seismic-reflection data: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 93, p. 1955-1983, doi: 10.1785/0120020019.
10. Fisher, M.A., Normark, W.R., Langenheim, V.E., Calvert, A.J., and Sliter, R., 2004a, Marine geology and earthquake hazards of the San Pedro shelf region, southern California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1687, http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/.
11. Fisher, M.A., Normark, W.R., Langenheim, V.E., Calvert, A.J., and Sliter, R., 2004b, The offshore Palos Verdes Fault Zone near San Pedro, southern California: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 94, p. 506-530, doi: 10.1785/0120030042.
12. Fisher, M.A., Normark, W.R., and Greene, H.G., Lee, H.J., and Sliter, R.W., 2005, Geology and tsunamigenic potential of submarine landslides in Santa Barbara Channel, Southern California: Marine Geology, v. 224, p. 1-22.
13. Fisher, M.A., Sorlien, C.C., and Sliter, R.W., 2009, this volume, Potential earthquake faults offshore Southern California, from the eastern Santa Barbara Channel south to Dana Point, in Lee, H.J., and Normark, W.R., eds., Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland: Geological Society of America Special Paper 454, doi: 10.1130/2009.2454(4.4).
14. Gorsline, D.S., 1996, Depositional events in Santa Monica Basin, California Borderland, over the past five centuries: Sedimentary Geology, v. 104, p. 73-88, doi: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00121-2.
15. Gorsline, D.S., and Emery, K.O., 1959, Turbidity current deposits in San Pedro and Santa Monica Basins off southern California: Geological Society of America Bulletin v. 70, p. 279-290, doi: 10.1130/0016-7606(1959)70[279:TDISPA]2. 0.CO;2.
16. Greene, H.G., Murai, L.Y., Ward, S.N., Fisher, M.A., Paull, C.E., Lee, H.J., Normark, W.R., and Maher, N.A., 2004, Types and mechanisms of mass-wasting events that shape the California continental margin, USA: 57th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, October 2004, G36554 pdf, p. 1-7.
17. Gutmacher, C.E., Normark, W.R., Ross, S.L., Edwards, B.D., Sliter, R., Hart, P., Cooper, B., Childs, J., and Reid, J.A., 2000, Cruise report for A1-00-SC Southern California earthquake hazards project, Part A: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-516, 67 p.
18. Inman, D.L., and Goldberg, E.D., 1963, Petrogenesis and depositional rates of sediments from the experimental Mohole drilling off La Jolla, California: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union), v. 44, p. 68.
19. Kennett, J.P., and Venz, K., 1995, Late Quaternary climatically related planktonic foraminiferal assemblage changes: Hole 893A, Santa Barbara Basin, California, in Kennett, J.P., Baldauf, J.G., and Lyle, M., eds., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results: College Station, Texas, Ocean Drilling Program, v. 146, no.2, p. 281-293.
20. Kennett, J.P., Kennett, J.P., Behl, R.J., Hill, T., Pak, D., Schimmelmann, A., Cannariato, K., Nicholson, C., Sorlien, C.C., and Hopkins, S.E., 2005, Extending the high-resolution global climate record in Santa Barbara Basin: Preliminary results and implications: Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union) v. 86, no.52, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract PP34B-02.
21. Kienast, S.S., and McKay, J.L., 2001, Sea surface temperatures in the subarctic northeast Pacific reflect millennial-scale climate oscillations during the last 16 kyrs: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 28, p. 1563-1566, doi: 10.1029/2000GL012543. (Pubitemid 32575981)
22. Kovanen, D.J., and Easterbrook, D.J., 2002, Paleodeviations of radiocarbon marine reservoir values for the northeast Pacific: Geology, v. 30, p. 243- 246, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0243:PORMRV>2.0.CO;2.
23. Lee, H.J., Normark, W.R., Fisher, M.A., Greene, H.G., Edwards, B.D., and Locat, J., 2004, Timing and extent of submarine landslides in Southern California: Offshore Technology Conference 2004, OTC Paper No. 16744, 12 p.
24. Lee, H.J., Greene, H.G., Edwards, B., Fisher, M.A., and Normark, W.R., 2009, this volume, Submarine landslides of the Southern California Borderland, in Lee, H.J., and Normark, W.R., eds., Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland: Geological Society of America Special Paper 454, doi: 10.1130/2009.2454(4.3).
25. Marlow, M.S., Gardner, J.V., and Normark, W.R., 2000, Using high-resolution multibeam bathymetry to identify seafloor surface rupture along the Palos Verdes fault complex in offshore southern California: Geology, v. 28, p. 587-590, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<587:UHMBTI>2.0.CO;2.
26. Marsaglia, K.M., Rimkus, K.C., and Behl, R.J., 1995, Provenance of sand deposited in the Santa Barbara Basin at Site 893 during the last 155,000 years, in Kennett, J.P., Baldauf, J.G., and Lyle, M., eds., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results: College Station, Texas, Ocean Drilling Program, v. 146, no.2, p. 61-75.
27. Martinson, D.G., Pisias, N.G., Hays, J.D., Imbrie, J., Moore, T.C., Jr., and Shackleton, N.J., 1987, Age dating and the orbital theory of the ice ages: Development of a high-resolution 0 to 300,000-year chronostratigraphy: Quaternary Research, v. 27, p. 1-29, doi: 10.1016/0033-5894(87)90046-9.
28. Mix, A.C., Lund, D.C., Pisias, N.G., and Bodén, P., 1999, Rapid climate oscillations in the northeast Pacific during the last deglaciation reflect Northern and Southern Hemisphere sources, in Clark, P., Webb, R.S., and Keigwin, L.D., eds., Mechanisms for global climate change at millennial time scales: Washington, D.C., American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph Series, v. 112, p. 127-148.
29. Nardin, T.R., 1983, Late Quaternary depositional systems and sea level change- Santa Monica and San Pedro Basins, California Continental Borderland: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 67, p. 1104-1124.
30. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 1998, NOS hydrographic survey data, U.S. coastal waters: Boulder, Colorado, World Data Center for Marine Geology and Geophysics, Data Announcement 01-MGG-03. (Data available at: fliers/01mgg03.html).
31. Normark, W.R., and McGann, M., 2004, Late Quaternary deposition in the inner basins of the California continental borderland-Part A. Santa Monica Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5183, 21 p.
32. Normark, W.R., and Piper, D.J.W., 1998, Preliminary evaluation of recent movement on structures within the Santa Monica Basin, offshore southern California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-518, 60 p.
33. Normark, W.R., Piper, D.J.W., and Hiscott, R.N., 1998, Sea level effects on the depositional architecture of the Hueneme and associated submarine fan systems, Santa Monica Basin, California: Sedimentology, v. 45, p. 53-70, doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.00139.x.
34. Normark, W.R., Piper, D.J.W., and Sliter, R., 2006, Sea-level and tectonic control of middle to late Pleistocene turbidite systems in Santa Monica Basin, offshore California: Sedimentology, v. 53, p. 867-897, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00797.x. (Pubitemid 44057356)
35. Normark, W.R., Bohannon, R.G., Sliter, R., Dunhill, G., Scholl, D.W., Laursen, J., Reid, J.A., and Holton, D., 1999a, Cruise report for A1-98-SC Southern California earthquake hazards project: U.S. Geological Survey Open- File Report 99-152, 60 p.
36. Normark, W.R., Reid, J.A., Sliter, R.W., Holton, D.J., Gutmacher, C.E., Fisher, M.A., and Childs, J.C., 1999b, Cruise report for O1-99-SC Southern California earthquake hazards project: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-560, 60 p.
37. Normark, W.R., Fisher, M.A., Gutmacher, C.E., Sliter, R., Hibbeler, L., Feingold, B., and Reid, J.A., 2003, Cruise report for A1-02-SC Southern California CABRILLO project, Earthquake Hazards Task: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-110, 68 p.
38. Normark, W.R., Baher, S., and Sliter, R., 2004a, Late Quaternary sedimentation and deformation in Santa Monica and Catalina Basins, offshore southern California, in Legg, M., Davis, P., and Gath, E., eds., Geology and tectonics of Santa Catalina Island and the California Continental Borderland: Santa Ana, South Coast Geological Society Annual Field Trip Guidebook, p. 291-317.
39. Normark, W.R., McGann, M., and Sliter, R., 2004b, Age of Palos Verdes submarine debris avalanche, southern California: Marine Geology, v. 203, p. 247-259, doi: 10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00308-6. (Pubitemid 38106180)
40. Normark, W.R., Piper, D.J.W., Romans, B.W., Covault, J.A., Dartnell, P., and Sliter, R.W., 2009, this volume, Submarine canyon and fan systems of the California Continental Borderland, in Lee, H.J., and Normark, W.R., eds., Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland: Geological Society of America Special Paper 454, doi: 10.1130/2009.2454(2.7).
41. Piper, D.J.W., Hiscott, R.N., and Normark, W.R., 1999, Outcrop-scale acoustic facies analysis and latest Quaternary development of Hueneme and Dume submarine fans, offshore California: Sedimentology, v. 46, p. 47-78, doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1999.00203.x. (Pubitemid 29248228)
42. Reynolds, S., 1987, A recent turbidity current event, Hueneme fan, California: Reconstruction of flow properties: Sedimentology, v. 34, p. 129-137, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.1987.tb00565.x.
43. Ryan, H.F., Legg, M.R., Conrad, J.E., and Sliter, R.W., 2009, this volume, Recent faulting in the Gulf of Santa Catalina: San Diego to Dana Point, in Lee, H.J., and Normark, W.R., eds., Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland: Geological Society of America Special Paper 454, doi: 10.1130/2009.2454(4.5).
44. Shackleton, N.J., Fairbanks, R.G., Tzu-chien Chiub, and Parreninc, F., 2004, Absolute calibration of the Greenland time scale: Implications for Antarctic time scales and for Ä14C: Quaternary Science Reviews Rapid Communication, v. 23, p. 1513-1522.
45. Shipboard scientific party, 1997, Site 1015, in Lyle, M., Koizumi, I., Richter, C., et al.., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program: College Station, Texas, Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 167, p. 223-237.
46. Shorebased scientific party, 1994, Site 893, in Kennett, J.P., Baldauf, J., et al., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program: College Station, Texas, Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 146, pt. 2, p. 15-50.
47. Sommerfield, C.K., and Lee, H.J., 2003, Magnitude and variability of Holocene sediment accumulation in Santa Monica Bay, California: Marine Environmental Research, v. 56, no.1-2, p. 151-176, doi: 10.1016/S0141-1136(02) 00329-X. (Pubitemid 36332039)
48. Sommerfield, C.K., and Lee, H.J., 2004, Across-shelf sediment transport since the last glacial maximum, Southern California margin: Geology, v. 32, no.4, p. 345-348, doi: 10.1130/G20182.2. (Pubitemid 38536505)
49. Sommerfield, C.K., Lee, H.J., and Normark, W.R., 2009, this volume, Postglacial sedimentary record of the Southern California continental shelf and slope, Point Conception to Dana Point, in Lee, H.J., and Normark, W.R., eds., Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland: Geological Society of America Special Paper 454, doi: 10.1130/2009.2454(2.5).
50. Southon, J.R., Nelson, D.E., and Vogel, J.S., 1990, A record of past oceanatmosphere radiocarbon differences from the Northeast Pacific: Paleoceanography, v. 5, p. 197-206, doi: 10.1029/PA005i002p00197.
51. Stuiver, M., and Polach, H.A., 1977, Discussion: Reporting of 14C data: Radiocarbon, v. 19, p. 355-363.
52. Stuiver, M., and Reimer, P.J., 1993, Extended 14C database and revised CALIB radiocarbon calibration program (version 5.0): Radiocarbon, v. 35, p. 215-230.
53. Tripsanas, E., Piper, D.J.W., Jenner, K.A., and Bryant, W.R., 2008, Sedimentary characteristics of submarine mass-transport deposits: New perspectives from a core-based facies classification: Sedimentology, v. 55, p. 97-136.
54. Warrick, J.A., and Farnsworth, K.L., 2009, this volume, Sources of sediment to the coastal waters of the Southern California Bight, in Lee, H.J., and Normark, W.R., eds., Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland: Geological Society of America Special Paper 454, doi: 10.1130/2009.2454(2.2).