K. Marsaglia, B. Rodriguez, D. Weeraratne, H. Greene, N. Shintaku, M. Kohler
{"title":"Tracing the Arguello Submarine Canyon System from Shelf Origins to an Abyssal Sink","authors":"K. Marsaglia, B. Rodriguez, D. Weeraratne, H. Greene, N. Shintaku, M. Kohler","doi":"10.2110/SEPMSP.111.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2110/SEPMSP.111.14","url":null,"abstract":"A BSTRACT : The Arguello submarine canyon/channel system extends over 300 km from the continental shelf off Point Arguello and Point Conception in southern California westward onto the oceanic crust of the Pacific plate. In the northernmost reaches where the canyon system originates, all stages in the evolution of seafloor morphologic fluid flow features—from pockmarks to gullies to converging rills—are observed, similar to what has been described for the Ascension slope, north of Monterey Bay. These features appear to be active today and are linked to fluid leakage from the underlying hydrocarbon basin. The channel dissects a continental slope that exhibits features consistent with large-scale mass wasting. Upslope scarps may be the source of the morphological feature at the base of the slope previously referred to as the ‘‘ Arguello submarine fan, ’’ with topographic expressions (e.g., large channel meanders, ridges) that are more consistent with mass transport deposits than with deep-sea fan depositional lobes. The modern canyon crosscuts these deposits and parallels an older, meandering channel/canyon to the west. Modern seismicity along the shelf and slope may have, and potentially still can, trigger landslides on the slope. Seismicity associated with seamount volcanism, past subduction, and Borderland transrotational and extensional processes most likely played a role in stimulating mass wasting. The presence of abundant nearby petroleum suggests that gas venting and hydrate dissociation cannot be ruled out as a triggering mechanism for the slope destabilization occurring today. The canyon/channel continues due south on a path possibly determined by the structural grain of north–south-aligned abyssal hills underlying oceanic basement. At latitude 33 8 18 0 N, the channel makes a 90 8 turn (bend) to the west at the E–W-striking Arguello transform fault wall and develops into a meandering channel system that crosses over abyssal hill crustal fabric. The system ultimately straightens as it continues west before veering north, curving around a thickened crustal bulge at a corner offset in the Arguello fracture zone in complex basement structure, and then finally empties into an 800-m-deep basin depocenter.","PeriodicalId":161437,"journal":{"name":"From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132872826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction—From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution","authors":"K. Marsaglia, R. Behl, J. Schwalbach","doi":"10.2110/sepmsp.110.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2110/sepmsp.110.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161437,"journal":{"name":"From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133913584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fault‐Controlled Depositional Environments and Stratigraphy of an Early Inner Borderland Turbidite System: The Miocene Upper Modelo Formation, Eastern Ventura Basin, California","authors":"G. S. Gordon, D. Pyles","doi":"10.2110/sepmsp.110.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2110/sepmsp.110.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161437,"journal":{"name":"From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution","volume":"601 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132847734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A USC Tribute to Donn Sherrin Gorsline","authors":"W. Berelson, Bottjer Dave, J. Schwalbach","doi":"10.2110/sepmsp.110.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2110/sepmsp.110.20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161437,"journal":{"name":"From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132924286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oligocene and Miocene Volcanics in the Sedimentary Forearc of the Outer California Borderland","authors":"D. Clague, K. Marsaglia, B. Cousens, J. Paduan","doi":"10.2110/sepmsp.110.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2110/sepmsp.110.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161437,"journal":{"name":"From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117075344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hierarchical Organization and Spatial Variations of Lobes in Distributive Submarine Fans: Outcrop Study of the Point Loma Formation, California, USA","authors":"D. Pyles, Alexandra Fleming, D. Anderson","doi":"10.2110/sepmsp.110.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2110/sepmsp.110.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161437,"journal":{"name":"From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130123581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tectonic Evolution of the Palos Verdes Fault–Lasuen Knoll Segment, Offshore Southern California","authors":"Michael A. Thompson, R. D. Francis","doi":"10.2110/sepmsp.110.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2110/sepmsp.110.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161437,"journal":{"name":"From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130153371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. L. De Hoogh, C. Sorlien, C. Nicholson, C. Schindler, R. D. Francis
{"title":"Structure, Evolution, and Tectonic Significance of the Eastern Boundary of the Outer Continental Borderland","authors":"G. L. De Hoogh, C. Sorlien, C. Nicholson, C. Schindler, R. D. Francis","doi":"10.2110/sepmsp.110.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2110/sepmsp.110.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161437,"journal":{"name":"From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124213727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Schwalbach, J. W. Holloway, E. Steel, R. Coldewey
{"title":"Pliocene Repetto Formation Turbidites, Ventura Avenue Field, Ventura, California: Linking Reservoir Properties, Lithofacies, and Stratigraphic Elements","authors":"J. Schwalbach, J. W. Holloway, E. Steel, R. Coldewey","doi":"10.2110/sepmsp.110.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2110/sepmsp.110.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161437,"journal":{"name":"From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127946906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Conrad, Katherine Coble, H. Ryan, P. Dartnell, R. Sliter
{"title":"Right‐Lateral Fault Motion along the Slope‐Basin Transition, Gulf of Santa Catalina, Southern California","authors":"J. Conrad, Katherine Coble, H. Ryan, P. Dartnell, R. Sliter","doi":"10.2110/SEPMSP.110.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2110/SEPMSP.110.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161437,"journal":{"name":"From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126257054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}