Papers Published

1. Goodman, E.D. and Malin, P.E., Evolution of the southern San Joaquin Basin and mid-Tertiary `Transitional' tectonics, central California, Tectonics (USA), vol. 11 no. 3 (1992), pp. 478 - 98 .
   (last updated on 2007/04/09)

   Abstract:
   Geological and geophysical work in the southern Sierra Nevada addressing Mesozoic paleogeographic problems, including a CALCRUST deep-crustal seismic profile, identified the need for new investigations of the structure and Cenozoic history of the southern San Joaquin Basin (SSJB) [Sams and Saleeby, 1988] (P.E. Maline el al., Evidence for crustal-scale tilting beneath the Tehachapi Mountains and Tejon embayment, submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research, 1990). Furthermore, an unusually complete record of the structures and strata necessary to unravel part of the Cenozoic history of southern California exists in the southern end of the basin. Therefore the Tejon embayment, a topographic depression located at the southern end of the SSJB, 40 km south of Bakersfield was selected for study. The present paper presents new field and subsurface data and describes the structure and tectonic evolution of the SSJB over the past 30 m.y. as different tectonic events followed each other along the plate margin. The relationships between the local structural styles, the transitions between them, and the sequence and timing of relevant regional events are examined

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