Paleogeography of Monterey Formation, Cuyama Basin, California
The Cuyama basin is located in the southern portion of the Salinian block of coastal California, a distinctive geologic terrane underlain by granitic and gneissic basement and surrounded by areas underlain by Franciscan basement. This basin is one of several discrete, middle Cenozoic basins that formed a continental borderland in the coastal California province during the Miocene. The regional stratigraphy of the Monterey Formation and associated rocks within this area illustrates the character of an inboard basin (immediately adjacent to the primary strandline) within this borderland. The age of the Monterey Formation varies within the basin. Schematic paleogeographic maps constructed on 4 time slices illustrate that the depositional history of the basin reflects these subsidence patterns and various depositional controls.
- Research Organization:
- Dept. of Geology and Earth Sci, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
- OSTI ID:
- 5165600
- Journal Information:
- AAPG Bull.; (United States), Journal Name: AAPG Bull.; (United States) Vol. 68:5; ISSN AABUD
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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