Evolution of the offshore central California margin

Salinia revisited: a crystalline nappe sequence lying above the Nacimiento fault and dispersed along the San Andreas fault system, central California

“…130-17 ft + 9360 ft) between the Franciscan Complex and the PiP Formation. This is the NPP 2 piercing point of Dickinson et al (2005, figure 4) near ANP (Figure 1), south of PiP (Figure 1) (see Mullins and Nagel 1981;Nagel and Mullins 1983;McCulloch 1987McCulloch , 1989aMcCulloch , 1989bChapman et al 1990).…”

“…near Point Arena (PAr, Figure 1), Mendocino County, and Bodega Head (BH, Figure 1)], Sonoma County (see Hall 2002, Plate 1A;Dickinson et al 2005 Sierran granitic rocks, offset from similar rocks in the PiF-SAF zone Dickinson (1978a, 1978b), McCulloch (1987McCulloch ( , 1989aMcCulloch ( , 1989b, Hall et al (1995), and Burnham (2009, p. 217) Note: the distance from NSD south to granitic rocks of TMs is 610-675 km (379-420 mi)…”

Geologic map of the Montara Mountain and San Mateo 7-1/2' quadrangles, San Mateo County, California

“…The Seal Cove Fault is a part of the San GregorioHosgri Fault Zone, a mostly offshore zone of faulting extending about 270 mi from the vicinity of Bolinas Bay south to near Point Sal (Graham and Dickinson, 1978;McCulloch, 1989). The onshore parts of this zone have been mapped in segments by Weber and Lajoie (1980) who described geomorphic evidence for recency of movements on each segment.…”

“…Cove segment and the main part of the San Gregorio Fault lying a few miles offshore and parallel to the Seal Cove Fault (McCulloch, 1989). At Moss Beach an excellent sea-cliff exposure of the Seal Cove Fault showing 80,000 to 85,000-yr-old marine terrace deposits against lower Pliocene Purisima mudstone was covered with riprap in the 1980's to retard erosion of the cliff.…”

Paleogeography of the western Transverse Range province, California; new evidence from the late Oligocene and early Miocene Vaqueros Formation; Stratigraphy of the fine-grained facies of the Sisquoc Formation, Santa Maria Basin, California; paleoceanographic and tectonic implications; The Sisquoc Formation-Foxen Mudstone boundary in the Santa Maria Basin, California; sedimentary response to the new tectonic regime

“…Any episode of rotation of the Transverse Range would probably have also impacted the Santa Maria basin. McCulloch and Lewis (1988) reported that strikeparallel folds in the offshore central California margin probably developed between approximately 5 to 3 Ma as a result of an episode of compressional motion between the Pacific and North American Plates. Porter (1932), , and , citing the thinning of late Miocene and Pliocene units on anticlinal ridges, suggested that many of the anticlinal ridges in the Santa Maria basin probably formed in the late Miocene or early Pliocene.…”