A complex record of last interglacial sea-level history and paleozoogeography, Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California, USA

DR Muhs, LT Groves, KR Simmons… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies of marine terraces and their fossils can yield important information about sea level
history, tectonic uplift rates, and paleozoogeography, but some aspects of terrace history …

The marine terraces of Santa Cruz Island, California: Implications for glacial isostatic adjustment models of last-interglacial sea-level history

DR Muhs, RR Schumann, LT Groves, KR Simmons… - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
Glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) models hypothesize that along coastal California, last
interglacial (LIG, broadly from~ 130 to~ 115 ka) sea level could have been as high as+ 11 m …

[HTML][HTML] Strontium isotope chronostratigraphic age of a sirenian fossil site on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California

JB Paces, SA Minor, KM Schmidt, J Hoffman - 2023 - pubs.er.usgs.gov
Fossils in the order Sirenia (family Dugongidae) from Santa Rosa Island, part of Channel
Islands National Park in southern California, provide rare temporal and spatial links between …

Checklist of California Paleogene–Neogene marine Mollusca since Keen and Bentson (1944)

LT Groves, RL Squires - PaleoBios, 2021 - escholarship.org
This checklist is a sequel to the one published by A. Myra Keen and Herdis Bentson in 1944
and is an alphabetical listing of California marine Paleogene–Neogene mollusk species or …

A tale of two islands: tectonic and orbital controls on marine terrace reoccupation, Channel Islands National Park, California, USA

DR Muhs, LT Groves, KR Simmons… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In areas of low uplift rate on the Pacific Coast of North America, reoccupation of emergent
marine terraces by later high sea‐stands has been hypothesised to explain the existence of …

Tusked walruses (Carnivora: Odobenidae) from the Miocene–Pliocene Purisima Formation of Santa Cruz, California (USA): a new species of the toothless walrus …

RW Boessenecker, AW Poust… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Currently limited to cold climates near the Arctic circle, living walruses are the sole survivors
of a previously much more diverse clade that occupied coastal waters throughout the …

Reconstructing oyster paleocommunity structure over the last 3.6 million years: A southern California case study

N Bonuso, DC Zacherl, K Vreeland, J Ditmar - PaleoBios, 2021 - escholarship.org
We culled abundance record data from the NSF-funded TCN, Eastern Pacific Invertebrate
Communities of the Cenozoic (EPICC), including all southern California localities that …

Tectonic controls on Quaternary landscape evolution in the Ventura basin, southern California, USA, quantified using cosmogenic isotopes and topographic analyses

A Hughes, DH Rood, DE DeVecchio… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The quantification of rates for the competing forces of tectonic uplift and erosion has
important implications for understanding topographic evolution. Here, we quantify the …

[PDF][PDF] Reconstructing oyster paleocommunity structure over the last 3.6 million years: A southern

N Bonuso, DC Zacherl, K Vreeland - PaleoBios, 38 (0), 2021 - scholar.archive.org
We culled abundance record data from the NSF-funded TCN, Eastern Pacific Invertebrate
Communities of the Cenozoic (EPICC), including all southern California localities that …