Full Title: Pliocene Carbonates and Related Facies Flanking the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico
Editors: Markes E. Johnson and Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez
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The Gulf of California is a stimulating laboratory in which to test the interplay between tectonics and eustasy with respect to the erosion of rocky shorelines. Not since GSA Memoir 43 on the results of the 1940 E.W. Scripps cruise to the Gulf of California has there been assembled so expansive a collection of research papers on the Gulf Coast Pliocene of Baja California. This volume takes up facies relations, paleogeography, and tectonics where the classic exploration style of the 1950 Memoir leaves off. The result of collaboration by Mexican and American geologists and marine biologists associated with the Sociedad Geológica Peninsular, the topics embraced by this well-integrated collection fall under three themes. One concerns the origin of carbonate sediments, giving new emphasis to coralline red algae as rhodoliths. Another deals with rocky shorelines as an ideal boundary marker for the mapping of facies and the determination of relative sea-level changes. The third theme involves insights on Pliocene stratigraphy through Holocene patterns of sedimentation and neotectonics.
Published: 11/20/1997
ISBN Number: 0813723183
Pages: 171
Product Category: Special Papers