Origin of Late Cenozoic Basins in Southern California

Submarine landslides in the Santa Barbara Channel as potential tsunami sources

“…The basin has a maximum water depth of 589 m with 96% of the 2300 km 2 area deeper than the shelf break comprised of slope (Thornton, 1984). The basin formed about 15 Ma by lateral shear along the Pacific-North American transform plate boundary (Crowell, 1974;Howell, 1976). It is a foreland basin of the southward propagating deformation front of the Santa Ynez Mountains (Yeats, 1981;Namson and Davis, 1988).…”

Submarine landslides: Selected studies in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone

“…Santa Barbara Basin began forming about 15 million years ago by lateral shear at the boundary between the North American and Pacific plates (Crowell , 1974;Howell, 197 6). This coastal region is cut by a large number of faults, many of them active in Pleistocene and Holocene time (2 million years ago to present; Yerkes, 1985).…”

Summary of geology and petroleum plays used to assess undiscovered recoverable petroleum resources of Los Angeles Basin Province, California

“…Some of the more important studies of broad scope since 1962 include Durham and Yerkes (1964), Yerkes and others (1965), Yerkes and Campbell (1971), Gardett (1971), Hill (1971), Yerkes (1972), Harding (1973), Yeats (1973), Crowell (1974), Campbell and Yerkes (1976), Nardin and Henyey (1978), and Schoellhamer and others (1981). Recent summary papers are by Schwartz and Colburn (1987) and Wright (1987b).…”