Understanding the Monterey Formation and Similar Biosiliceous Units Across Space and Time

x, 315 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm. The Monterey Formation is a Miocene marine unit that occurs extensively in the Coast Ranges and in the continental margins of California, and analogous biosiliceous deposits are found around the Pacific Rim and elsewhere in the world. Classic studies on the diatomaceous deposits that characterize the hemipelagic/pelagic facies of the Monterey Formation have been key to understand the oceanographic and tectonic conditions that lead to the preservation of large volumes of organic-rich hemipelagic biosiliceous sediments, and the properties of these sedimentary deposits once they convert into rocks. This volume presents a collection of recent studies on the Monterey and other similar biosiliceous deposits that offer modern and updated interpretations of this classic unit and its analogues. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor Bob Garrison. Contents: Depositional and diagenetic controls on the mechanical properties of rocks in the Monterey formation of the Santa Maria Basin, California / John B. Dunham An observational approach to mudstone sequence stratigraphy: the Monterey formation of California / Jon R. Schwalbach and Kevin M. Bohacs Compositional and diagenetic control of bed- to formational-scale deformation in siliceous sedimentary rocks, Santa Maria Basin, California / Yannick Wirtz and Richard J. Behl Nanometer-scale pore structure and the Monterey Formation: a new tool to investigate silica diagenesis / Cynthia M. Ross and Anthony R. Kovscek Middle Miocene climate-carbon cycle dynamics: keys for understanding future trends on a warmer earth? / Ann Holbourn, Wolfgang Kuhnt, Karlos G. D. Kochhann, Kenji M. Matsuzaki, and Nils Andersen Refined assessment of the paleoceanographic and tectonic influences on the deposition of the Monterey Formation in California / John A. Barron Relationship of organic carbon deposition in the Monterey Formation to the Monterey excursion event based on an updated chromostratigraphic framework of the Naples Beach section, California / Gregg H. Blake Tephrochronology of the Miocene Monterey and Modelo Formations, California / Jeffrey R. Knott, Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki, John A. Barron, Elmira Wan, Lynn Heizler, and Priscilla Martinez Miocene terrestrial paleoclimates inferred from pollen in the Monterey Formation, Naples Coastal Bluffs section, California / Linda E. Heusser, John A. Barron, Gregg H. Blake, and Jon Nichols Middle and late Miocene marine mammal assemblages from the Monterey Formation of Orange County, California / James F. Parham, John A. Barron, and Jorge Velez-Juarbe Biosiliceous, organic-rich, and phosphatic facies of Triassic strata of northwest Alaska: transect across a high-latitude low-angle continental margin / Julie A. Dumoulin, Katherine J. Whidden, William A. Rouse, Richard O. Lease, Adam Boehlke, and Paul O'Sullivan Chemostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic framework of the Eocene Kreyenhagen Formation, Kettleman area, central San Joaquin Basin, California / Leo G. Giannetta and Richard J. Behl Gamma-ray attenuation bulk density as an indicator of diatom valve abundance and fragmentation in Pleistocene biosiliceous sediments of the Bering Sea / Michelle K. Drake, Ivano W. Aiello, and A. Christian Ravelo.