Paleocene Sedimentation in the Northern Santa Lucia Range |
Contents
Paleocene Deposits | 27 |
Description of Units Mapped in | 32 |
Inner Fan Deposits | 35 |
5 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Ammodiscus angular unconformity Arroyo Seco river backfilling base basement rock basin Bathysiphon eocenica Bathysiphon sp Bouma sequence channel-fill complex clasts clotho coarse sandstone columnar section Cone Peak quadrangle Cretaceous and Paleocene deposits facies facies G fan facies associations fault Foraminifera fossils geometry Gneissic graded granitic inner fan deposits interbeds interchannel Junipero Serra Peak Junipero Serra quadrangle laminations lenticular Lower Bathyal Merle Ranch middle fan deposits mudstone facies northern Santa Lucia outer fan overbank deposits Paleocene and Upper Paleocene deposits Paleocene section Paleocene sequence Paleocene strata pelecypods pelitic Plate Porphyritic present retrogradation Salinian block San Antonio River sand matrix sandstone and mudstone sandstone beds Santa Lucia Range sediments Silicosigmoilina californica Spiroplectammina siltstone sole markings Stanford Geological Survey strata exposed submarine canyon submarine fan submarine fan system suprafan deposits thick thick-bedded thinning upward sequences upper contact Upper Cretaceous section Upper Cretaceous strata Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene Wizard Gulch area Wizard Gulch section