Publications

Monterey-Related Publications (Monterey, Neogene stratigraphy, diagenesis, and structure)

In the future, publications will be available for download
For example, the library will ultimately include:

Barron, J. A., 1986a, Paleoceanographic and tectonic controls on deposition of the Monterey Formation and related siliceous rocks in California: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 53, p. 27-45.
Barron, J. A., 1986b, Updated diatom biostratigraphy for the Monterey Formation of California, in Casey, R. E., and Barron, J. A., eds., Siliceous Microfossil and Microplankton of the Monterey Formation and Modern Analogs: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Barron, J. A., and Isaacs, C. M., in press, Updated Chronostratigraphic Framework for the California Miocene, in Isaacs, C. M., and Rullkötter, J., eds., The Monterey Formation: from Rocks to Molecules, Columbia University Press.
Behl, R. J., 1992, Chertification in the Monterey Formation of California and Deep-Sea Sediments of the West Pacific [Ph.D. thesis]: University of California, Santa Cruz, 287 p.
Behl, R.J., 1998. Relationships between silica diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in Monterey Formation cherts, Santa Maria Basin, California. In P. Eichhubl (Ed.), Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation, Special Publication Pacific Section SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), 83, 77-83.
Behl, R.J., 1999. Milton Nunn Bramlette (biographical sketch). In Moores, Sloan, and Stout (Eds.), Classic Cordilleran Concepts: A View From California, Special Publication 338, Geological Society of America, p. 274.
Behl, R.J., 1999. Since Bramlette (1946): the Miocene Monterey Formation of California Revisited. In Moores, Sloan, and Stout (Eds.), Classic Cordilleran Concepts: A View From California, Special Publication 338, Geological Society of America, p. 301-313.
Behl, R.J., 2011, Chert spheroids of the Monterey Formation, California (USA): early diagenetic structures of bedded siliceous deposits, Sedimentology. published online: 28 Jun 2010; v. 58, p. 325–351.
Behl, R.J., and Garrison, R.E., 1994. The origin of chert in the Monterey Formation of California (USA). In Iijima, A., Abed, A.M., and Garrison, R.E. (eds.) Siliceous, Phosphatic and Glauconitic Sediments of the Tertiary and Mesozoic: Proceedings of the 29th International Geological Congress, Part C; p. 101-132, VSP, Utrecht.
Behl, R.J., and Ingle, J.C., Jr., 1998. The Sisquoc/Foxen Boundary in the Santa Maria Basin, California: sedimentary response to the new tectonic regime. US Geological Survey Bulletin, 1995, Chapter V, p. V1-V16.
Behl, R.J., and Morita, S., 2007, The Monterey Formation of the Palos Verdes Hills, California: stratigraphy and diagenetic implications for burial and uplift history: in Brown, A.R., Shlemon, R.J., and Cooper, J.D., eds., Geology and Paleontology of the Palos Verdes Hills, California: A 60th Anniversary Revisit to Commemorate 1946 Publication of U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 207: Pacific Section SEPM book 103, p. 51-72.
Behl, R.J., and Smith, B.M.,1992. Silicification of deep sea sediments and the oxygen isotope composition of diagenetic siliceous rocks from the western Pacific, Pigafetta and East Mariana Basins, ODP Leg 129. Proc. O.D.P., Sci. Res., 129, p. 81-117, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).
Belfield, W. C., Helwig, J., La Pointe, P., and Dahleen, W. K., 1983, South Ellwood Oil Field, Santa Barbara Channel, California, a Monterey Formation Fractured Reservoir, in Isaacs, C. M., and Garrison, R. E., eds., Petroleum Generation and Occurrence in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.
Biddle, K. T., 1991, The Los Angeles Basin: an overview, in Biddle, K. T., ed., Active Margin Basins, AAPG Memoir 52.
Blake, G. H., 1981, Biostratigraphic relationship of Neogene Benthic Foraminifera from the southern California Outer Continental Borderland to the Monterey Formation, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Blake, G. H., 1991, Review of the Neogene Biostratigraphy and Stratigraphy of the Los Angeles Basin and Implications for Basin Evolution, in Biddle, K. T., ed., Active Margin Basins, AAPG Memoir 52.
Blake, M. C., Campbell, R. H., Dibblee, T. W., Jr., Howell, D. G., Nilsen, T. H., Normark, W. R., Vedder, J. C., and Silver, E. A., 1978, Neogene basin formation in relation to plate-tectonic evolution of the San Andreas Fault System, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 62, p. 344-372.
Bohrmann, G., Abelmann, A., Gersonde, R., Hubberten, H., and Kuhn, G., 1994, Pure siliceous ooze, a diagenetic environment for early chert formation: Geology, v. 22, p. 207-210.
Bramlette, M. N., 1946, The Monterey Formation of California and the Origin of its Siliceous Rocks, U.S.G.S. Professional Paper: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government, 57 p.
Burns, S. J., and Baker, P. A., 1987, A geochemical study of dolomite in the Monterey Formation, California: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 57, p. 128-139.
Cady, S. L., Wenk, H. R., and Downing, K. H., 1996, HRTEM of microcrystalline opal in chert and porcelanite from the Monterey Formation, California: American Mineralogist, v. 81, p. 1380-1395.
Calvert, S. E., 1966, Accumulation of diatomaceous silica in the sediments of the Gulf of California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 77, p. 569-596.
Calvert, S. E., 1968, Silica balance in the ocean and diagenesis: Nature, v. 219, p. 919-920.
Canfield, C. R., 1939, Subsurface stratigraphy of Santa Maria Valley Oil Field and adjacent parts of Santa Maria Valley, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 23, p. 45-81.
Casey, R. E., and Barron, J. A., 1986, Siliceous Microfossil and Microplankton of the Monterey Formation and Modern Analogs: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM, p. 147.
Compton, J. S., 1991, Origin and diagenesis of clay minerals in the Monterey Formation, Santa Maria Basin area, California: Clays and Clay Minerals, v. 39, p. 449-466.
Compton, J. S., Snyder, S. W., and Hodell, D. A., 1990, Phosphogenesis and weathering of shelf sediments from the southeastern United States: Implications for Miocene δ13C excursions and global cooling: Geology, v. 18, p. 1227-1230.
Crain, W. E., Mero, W. E., and Patterson, D., 1985, Geology of the Point Arguello discovery: AAPG Bulletin, v. 69, p. 537-545.
Crawford, F. D., 1971, Petroleum potential of Santa Maria province, California, in Cram, I. H., ed., Future Petroleum Provinces of the United States - their geology and potential: Tulsa, American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Crouch, J. A., and Bukry, D., 1979, Comparison of Miocene provincial foraminiferal stages to coccoliths in the California continental borderland: Geology, v. 7, p. 211-215.
Crouch, J. K., and Suppe, J., 1993, Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Los Angeles basin and inner California borderland: a model for core complex-like crustal extension: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, p. 1415-1434.
Curiale, J. A., Cameron, D., and Davis, D. V., 1985, Biological marker distribution and significance in oils and rocks of the Monterey Formation, California: Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, v. 49, p. 271-288.
DePaolo, D. J., and Finger, K. L., 1991, High-resolution strontium-isotope stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Miocene Monterey Formation, central California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 103, p. 112-124.
Donegan, D., and Schrader, H., 1981, Modern analogues of the Miocene diatomaceous Monterey Shale of California: evidence from sedimentologic and micropaleontologic study, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Dunham, J. B., and Blake, G. H., 1987, Guide to coastal outcrops of the Monterey Formation of western Santa Barbara county, California., in Dunham, J. B., ed., Guide to coastal outcrops of the Monterey Formation of western Santa Barbara county, California.: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Dunham, J. B., Bromley, B. W., and Rosato, V. J., 1991, Geologic controls on hydrocarbon occurrence within the Santa Maria basin of western California, in Gluskoter, H. J., Rice, D. D., and Taylor, R. B., eds., Economic Geology, U.S.: The Geology of North America: Decade of North American Geology: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America.
Dunkel, C. A., and Piper, K. A., 1997, 1995 National Assessment of United States Oil and Gas Resources: Assessment of the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Region: U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service, MMS 97-0019.
Eichhubl, P., 1997, Scale, Rates, and Timing of Fracture-Related Fluid Flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation, Coastal California [Ph.D. thesis]: University of California, Santa Barbara, 298 p.
Eichhubl, P., 1998, Diagenesis, Deformation, and Fluid Flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation, Special Publication: Palo Alto, Pacific Section SEPM, v. 83, p. 98.
Eichhubl, P., and Behl, R. J., 1998, Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation, in Eichhubl, P., ed., Diagenesis, Deformation, and Fluid Flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation: Special Publication: Palo Alto, Pacific Section SEPM.
Eichhubl, P., and Behl, R.J., 1998. Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation. In P. Eichhubl (Ed.), Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation, Special Publication Pacific Section SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), 83, 5-13.
Eichhubl, P., and Boles, J. R., 1998, Vein formation in relation to burial diagenesis in the Miocene Monterey Formation, Arroyo Burro Beach, Santa Barbara, California, in Eichhubl, P., ed., Diagenesis, Deformation, and Fluid Flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation: Special Publication: Palo Alto, Pacific Section SEPM.
Filippelli, G.M., Delaney, M.L., Garrison, R.E., Omarzai, S.K., and Behl, R.J., 1994. Phosphorus accumulation rates in a Miocene low oxygen basin: the Monterey Formation (Pismo Basin), California. Marine Geology, 116, p. 419-430.
Finger, K. L., 1995, Recognition of middle Miocene foraminifers in highly indurated rocks of the Monterey Formation, coastal Santa Maria province, central California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, v. 1995L, p. L1-L30.
Finkbeiner, T., Barton, C. A., and Zoback, M. D., 1997, Relationships Among In-Situ Stress, Fractures and Faults, and Fluid Flow: Monterey Formation, Santa Maria Basin, California: AAPG Bulletin, v. 81, p. 1975-1999.
Flower, B. P., and Kennett, J. P., 1993, Relations between Monterey Formation deposition and middle Miocene global cooling: Naples Beach section, California: Geology, v. 21, p. 877-880.
Flower, B. P., and Kennett, J. P., 1994, Oxygen and carbon isotopic stratigraphy of the Monterey Formation at Naples Beach, California, in Hornafius, J. S., ed., Field Guide to the Monterey Formation between Santa Barbara and Gaviota, California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section AAPG., p. 59-66
Föllmi, K. B., Garrison, R. E., and Grimm, K. A., 1991, Stratification in phosphatic sediments: illustrations from the Neogene of California, in Einsele, G., Ricken, W., and Seilacher, A., eds., Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy: Berlin, Springer-Verlag.
Foss, C. D., and Blaisdell, R., 1968, Stratigraphy of the west side southern San Joaquin Valley, in Karp, S. E., ed., Guidebook, Geology and Oilfields West Side Southern San Joaquin Valley: Bakersfield, Pacific Section AAPG.
Friedman, I., and Murata, K. J., 1979, Origin of Dolomite in Miocene Monterey Shale and Related Formations in the Temblor Range, California: Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, v. 43, p. 1357-1365.
Fritsche, A. E., 1998, Miocene palinspastic restoration of southwestern California: AAPG Bulletin, v. 82, p. 847-848.
Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., 1981, The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM, p. 327.
Garrison, R. E., and Ramirez, P. C., 1989, Conglomerates and breccias in the Monterey Formation and related units as reflections of basin margin history, in Colburn, I. P., Abbott, P. L., and Minch, J., eds., Conglomerates in Basin Analysis: A Symposium Dedicated to A.O. Woodford, Pacific Section SEPM.
Garrison, R. E., Hoppie, B. W., and Grimm, K. A., 1994, Phosphates and dolomites in coastal upwelling sediments of the Peru margin and the Monterey Formation (Naples Beach section), California, in Hornafius, J. S., ed., Field Guide to the Monterey Formation Between Santa Barbara and Gaviota, California: Bakersfield, Pacific Section AAPG.
Garrison, R. E., Kastner, M., and Kolodny, Y., 1987, Phosphorites and phosphatic rocks in the Monterey Formation and related Miocene units, coastal California, in Ingersoll, R. V., and Ernst, W. G., eds., Cenozoic Basin Development of Coastal California: Rubey Volume: Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall.
Garrison, R. E., Kastner, M., and Reimers, C. E., 1990, Miocene Phosphogenesis in California, in Burnett, W. C., and Riggs, S. R., eds., Phosphate deposits of the world; Neogene to modern phosphorites: New York, NY, USA, Cambridge Univ. Press.
Garrison, R. E., Kastner, M., and Zenger, D. H., 1984, Dolomites of the Monterey Formation and Other Organic-Rich Units: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM, p. 215.
Garrison, R. E., Stanley, R. G., and Horan, L. J., 1979, Middle Miocene sedimentation on the southeastern edge of the Lockwood high, Monterey county, California, in Graham, S. A., ed., Tertiary and Quaternary Geology of the Salinas Valley and Santa Lucia Range, Monterey County, California: Pacific Coast Paleogeography Field Guide: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Global Geochemistry Corporation, 1985, The Geochemical and Paleoenvironmental history of the Monterey Formation -- Sediments and Hydrocarbons: Canoga Park, CA, Global Geochemistry Corporation, 459 p.
Govean, F. M., and Garrison, R. E., 1981, Significance of laminated and massive diatomites in the upper part of the Monterey Formation, California, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Graham, S. A., and Williams, L. A., 1985, Tectonic, depositional, and diagenetic history of Monterey Formation (Miocene), central San Joaquin basin, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 69, p. 385-411.
Grivetti, M. C., 1982, Aspects of Stratigraphy, Diagenesis, and Deformation in the Monterey Formation Near Santa Maria-Lompoc, California [Master's thesis]: University California, Santa Barbara, 155 p.
Gross, M. R., 1993, The origin and spacing of cross joints: examples from the Monterey Formation, Santa Barbara Coastline, California: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 15, p. 737-751.
Gross, M. R., Gutierrez-Alonso, G., Bai, T., Wacker, M.A., Collinsworth, K.B., Behl, R.J., 1997, Influence of mechanical stratigraphy and kinematics on fault scaling relations: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 19, p. 171-183.
Gross, M.R., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Bai, T., Wacker, M.A., Collinsworth, K.B., and Behl, R.J., 1997. Influence of mechanical stratigraphy and kinematics on fault scaling relations. Journal of Structural Geology, 19, no. 2, p.171-183.
Hill, M. L., Carlson, S. A., and Dibblee, T. W., Jr., 1958, Stratigraphy of the Cuyama Valley and Caliente Range area, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 42, p. 2973-3000.
Hornafius, J. S., 1991, Facies analysis of the Monterey Formation in the northern Santa Barbara Channel: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 75, p. 894-909.
Hornafius, J. S., 1994a, Field Guide to the Monterey Formation Between Santa Barbara and Gaviota, California: Bakersfield, Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. GB-72, p. 123.
Hornafius, J. S., 1994b, Overview of the stratigraphy of the Monterey Formation along the coastline between Santa Barbara and Gaviota, California, in Hornafius, J. S., ed., Field Guide to the Monterey Formation Between Santa Barbara and Gaviota, California: Bakersfield, Pacific Section AAPG, p. 1-15.
Hunt, J. M., 1979, Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology: San Francisco, W.H. Freeman, 617 p.
Ingersoll, R. V., and Ernst, W. G., 1987, Cenozoic Basin Development of Coastal California, Rubey Volume: Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, p. 496.
Ingle, J. C., Jr., 1973, Summary comments on Neogene biostratigraphy, physical stratigraphy, and paleo-oceanography in the marginal northeastern Pacific Ocean, Initial Reports Deep Sea Drilling Program, DSDP, p. 163-195.
Ingle, J. C., Jr., 1980, Cenozoic paleobathymetry and depositional history of selected sequences within the Southern California Continental Borderland, Cushman Foundation Special Publication, p. 163-195.
Ingle, J. C., Jr., 1981a, Cenozoic depositional history of the northern Continental Borderland of southern California and the origin of associated Miocene diatomites, in Isaacs, C. M., ed., Guide to the Monterey Formation in the California coastal area, Ventura to San Luis Obispo: Special Publications: Los Angeles, Pacific Section American Association Petroleum Geologists.
Ingle, J. C., Jr., 1981b, Origin of Neogene Diatomites around the north Pacific rim, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Isaacs, C. M., 1980, Diagenesis in the Monterey Formation Examined Laterally Along the Coast Near Santa Barbara, California [Ph.D. thesis]: Stanford University, 329 p.
Isaacs, C. M., 1981a, Guide to the Monterey Formation in the California coastal area, Ventura to San Luis Obispo, Pacific Section American Association Petroleum Geologists, p. 91.
Isaacs, C. M., 1981b, Lithostratigraphy of the Monterey Formation, Goleta to Point Conception, Santa Barbara coast, California, in Isaacs, C. M., ed., Guide to the Monterey Formation in the California coastal area, Ventura to San Luis Obispo: Los Angeles, Pacific Section American Association Petroleum Geologists.
Isaacs, C. M., 1981c, Outline of diagenesis in the Monterey Formation examined laterally along the Santa Barbara coast, California, in Isaacs, C. M., ed., Guide to the Monterey Formation in the California coastal area, Ventura to San Luis Obispo: Los Angeles, Pacific Section American Association Petroleum Geologists.
Isaacs, C. M., 1981d, Porosity reduction during diagenesis of the Monterey Formation, Santa Barbara coastal area, California, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Isaacs, C. M., 1982, Influence of rock composition on kinetics of silica phase changes in the Monterey Formation, Santa Barbara area, California: Geology, v. 10, p. 304-308.
Isaacs, C. M., 1983, Compositional variation and sequence in the Miocene Monterey Formation, Santa Barbara coastal area, California, in Larue, D.K., Steel, R.J., ed., Cenozoic Marine Sedimentation, Pacific Margin, SEPM Pacific Section Special Publication.
Isaacs, C. M., 1984, The Monterey - key to offshore California boom, Oil & Gas Journal, p. 75-81.
Isaacs, C. M., 1985, Abundance versus rates of accumulation in fine-grained strata of the Miocene Santa Barbara basin, California: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 5, p. 25-30.
Isaacs, C. M., 1988, Marine petroleum source rocks and reservoir rocks of the Miocene Monterey Formation, California, U.S.A., in Wagner, H. C., Wagner, L. C., Wang, F. F. H., and Wong, F. L., eds., Petroleum Resources of China and Related Subjects: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral resources Earth Science Series: Houston, TX.
Isaacs, C. M., and Garrison, R. E., 1983, Petroleum Generation and Occurrence in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM, p. 228.
Isaacs, C. M., and Magoon, L. B., 1984, Thermal indicators of organic matter in the Sisquoc and Monterey Formations, Santa Maria Basin, California: Annual Midyear Meeting Abstracts - Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 40.
Isaacs, C. M., and Petersen, N. F., 1987, Petroleum in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California, in Hein, J. R., ed., Siliceous Sedimentary Rock-Hosted Ores and Petroleum: Evolution of Ore Fields: New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Isaacs, C. M., and Rullkötter, J., in press, The Monterey Formation: from Rocks to Molecules, Columbia University Press.
Isaacs, C. M., Baumgartner, T. R., Tennyson, M. E., Piper, D. Z., and Ingle, J. C., Jr., 1996, A prograding margin model for the Monterey Formation, California: Annual Meeting Abstracts - American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, v. 5, p. 69.
Isaacs, C. M., in press, Depositional framework of the Monterey Formation, California, in Isaacs, C. M., and Rullkötter, J., eds., The Monterey Formation: from Rocks to Molecules, Columbia University Press.
Kablanow, R. I., II, and Surdam, R. C., 1984, Diagenesis and hydrocarbon generation in the Monterey Formation, Huasna basin, California, in Surdam, R. C., ed., A guidebook to the stratigraphic, tectonic, thermal, and diagenetic histories of the Monterey Formation, Pismo and Huasna Basin, California: Tulsa, OK, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.
Kastner, M., Keene, J.B., Gieskes, J.M., 1977, Diagenesis of siliceous oozes-I. Chemical controls on the rate of opal-A to opal-CT transformation-an experimental study: Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 41, p. 1041-1059.
Kastner, M., Mertz, K., Hollander, D., and Garrison, R., 1984, The association of dolomite-phosphorite-chert: causes and possible diagenetic sequences, in Garrison, R. E., Kastner, M., and Zenger, D. H., eds., Dolomites of The Monterey Formation and Other Organic-Rich Units, Pacific Section SEPM.
Keller, G., and Barron, J. A., 1981, Integrated planktic foraminiferal and diatom biochronology for the northeast Pacific and the Monterey Formation, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Keller, G., and Barron, J. A., 1983, Paleoceanographic implications of Miocene deep-sea hiatuses: Bulletin Geological Society of America, v. 94, p. 590-613.
Keller, M. A., and Isaacs, C. M., 1985, An evaluation of temperature scales for silica diagenesis in diatomaceous sequence including a new approach based on the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 5, p. 31-35.
Kennett, J. P., 1977, Cenozoic evolution of Antarctic glaciation, the circum-Antarctic Ocean, and the impact on global paleoceanography: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 82, p. 3843-3860.
King, J. D., and Claypool, G. E., 1983, Biological marker compounds and implications for generation and migration of petroleum in rocks of the Point Conception deep-stratigraphic test well, OCS-Cal 78-164 No. 1, offshore California, in Isaacs, C. M., and Garrison, R. E., eds., Petroleum Generation and Occurrence in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Kleinpell, R. M., 1938, Miocene Stratigraphy of California: Tulsa, AAPG, 450 p.
Kleinpell, R. M., 1980, Miocene Stratigraphy of California Revisited, AAPG Studies in Geology: Tulsa, AAPG, 450 p.
Kruge, M. A., 1983, Diagenesis of Miocene biogenic sediments in Lost Hills oil field, San Joaquin basin, California, in Isaacs, C. M., and Garrison, R. E., eds., Petroleum Generation and Occurrence in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Lagoe, M. B., 1981, Subsurface facies analysis of the Saltos Shale member, Monterey Formation (Miocene) and associated rocks, Cuyama Valley, California, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Lillis, P. G., and Lagoe, M. B., 1983, Regional patterns of oil gravity in the Monterey Formation, Santa Maria Basin, California; implications for petroleum exploration and tectonic history, in Isaacs, C. M., and Garrison, R. E., eds., Petroleum Generation and Occurrence in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Lyle, M., Koizumi, I., Richter, C., and al., e., 1997, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports: College Station, TX, Ocean Drilling Program, 1378 p.
MacKinnon, T. C., 1989a, Origin of the Miocene Monterey Formation in California, in MacKinnon, T. C., ed., Oil in the California Monterey Formation; Field Trip Guidebook T311: Washington D.C., American Geophysical Union, p. 1-10.
MacKinnon, T. C., 1989b, Petroleum geology of the Monterey Formation in the Santa Maria and Santa Barbara coastal and offshore areas, in Mackinnon, T. C., ed., Oil in the California Monterey Formation; Field Trip Guidebook T311: Washington D.C., American Geophysical Union, p. 11-27.
Malone, M. J., Baker, P. A., and Burns, S. J., 1996, Hydrothermal dolomitization and recrystallization of dolomite breccias from the Miocene Monterey Formation, Tepusquet area, California: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 66A, p. 976-990.
Mayerson, D. A., Dunkel, C. A., Piper, K. A., and Cousminer, H. L., 1995, Identification and correlation of the opal-CT/quartz phase transition in offshore central California: AAPG Bulletin, v. 79, p. 592.
Mayerson, D., and Crouch, J., 1994, The opal-CT/quartz diagenetic boundary within the Monterey Formation of the California offshore Santa Maria Basin; an untapped exploration target: AAPG Bulletin, v. 78, p. 669-670.
McCulloh, T. H., 1979, Implications for petroleum appraisal, in Cook, H. E., ed., Geologic Studies of the Point Conception Deep Stratigraphic Test Well OCS-CAL 78-164 No. 1, Outer Continental Shelf, Southern California, United States: U.S. Geological Survey (Open-File Report): Washington, D.C., U.S. Government.
McGuire, M. D., Bowersox, J. R., and Earnest, L. J., 1983, Diagenetically enhanced entrapment of hydrocarbons-Southern Lost Hills fractured shale pool, Kern County, California, in Isaacs, C. M., and Garrison, R. E., eds., Petroleum Generation and Occurrence in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Miller, K. G., Fairbanks, R. G., and Mountain, G. S., 1987, Tertiary oxygen isotope synthesis, sea level history, and continental margin erosion: Paleoceanography, v. 2, p. 1-19.
Morita, S. and Behl, R. J., 2004. Distribution and Ordering of Silica Phases in the Monterey Formation of the Palos Verdes Hills, California: Implications for Burial and Uplift History, in Brown, R. (Ed.), Field Guide to the Catalina Schist and the Palos Verdes Penninsula, Los Angeles Basin Geological Society, p. 16-32.
Murata, K. J., and Larson, R. R., 1975, Diagenesis of Miocene siliceous shales, Temblor Range, California: Research U.S. Geology survey, v. 3, p. 553-566.
Murata, K. J., and Norman, M. B., 1976, An index of crystallinity for quartz: American Journal of Science, v. 276, p. 1120-1130.
Murata, K. J., Friedman, I. I., and Madsen, B. M., 1967, Carbon-13-rich diagenetic carbonates in Miocene formations of California and Oregon: Science, v. 156, p. 1484-1485.
Murata, K. J., Friedman, I., and Cremer, M., 1972, Geochemistry of Diagenetic Dolomites in Miocene Marine Formations of California and Oregon: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government, 12 p.
Murata, K. J., Nakata, J. K., 1974, Cristobalitic stage in the diagenesis of diatomaceous shale: Science, v. 184, p. 567-568.
Murray, R. W., and Jones, D. L., 1992, Diagenetic formation of bedded chert: Evidence from chemistry of the chert-shale couplet: Geology, v. 20, p. 271-274.
Narr, W., 1991, Fracture Density in the Deep Subsurface: Techniques with Application to the Point Arguello Oil Field: AAPG Bulletin, v. 75, p. 1300-1323.
Obradovich, J. D., and Naeser, C. W., 1981, Geochronology bearing on the age of the Monterey Formation and siliceous rocks in California, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Omarzai, S. K., 1992, Monterey Formation of California at Shell Beach (Pismo basin): its lithofacies, paleomagnetism, age, and origin, in Schwalbach, J. R., and Bohacs, K. M., eds., Sequence Stratigraphy in Fine-Grained Rocks: Examples from the Monterey Formation: Santa Fe Springs, Pacific Section SEPM.
Orr, W. L., 1984, Sulfur and sulfur isotope ratios in Monterey oils of the Santa Maria Basin and Santa Barbara Channel area: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Annual Midyear Meeting, v. 1, p. 62.
Orr, W. L., 1986, Kerogen/asphaltene/sulfur relationships in sulfur-rich Monterey oils: Organic Geochemistry, v. 10, p. 499-516.
Ozalas, K., Savrda, C. E., and Fullerton, R. R., Jr., 1994, Bioturbation oxygenation-event beds in siliceous facies: Monterey Formation (Miocene), California: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 112, p. 63-83.
Petersen, N. F., and Hickey, P. J., 1987, California Plio-Miocene oils: evidence of early generation, in Meyer, R. F., ed., Exploration for Heavy Crude Oil and Natural Bitumen: Studies in Geology: Tulsa, OK, American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Pisciotto, K. A., 1981a, Diagenetic trends in the siliceous facies of the Monterey Shale in the Santa Maria region, California: Sedimentology, v. 28, p. 547-571.
Pisciotto, K. A., 1981b, Review of secondary carbonates in the Monterey Formation, California, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Pisciotto, K. A., and Garrison, R. E., 1981, Lithofacies and Depositional Environments of the Monterey Formation, California, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Pisciotto, K. A., and Mahoney, J. J., 1981, Isotopic survey of diagenetic carbonates, DSDP Leg 63, in Yeats, R. S., Haq, B. U., and al., e., eds., Initial Reports Deep Sea Drilling Program: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government, p. 595-609.
Pollastro, R. M., 1990, Geothermometry from smectite and silica diagenesis in the Diatomaceous Monterey and Sisquoc Formations, Santa Maria Basin, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 74, p. 742.
Poore, R. Z., McDougall, K., Barron, J. A., Brabb, E. E., and Kling, S. A., 1981, Microfossil biostratigraphy and biochronology of the type Relizian and Luisian Stages of California, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Raymo, M. E., 1994, The Himalayas, organic carbon burial, and climate in the Miocene: Paleoceanography, v. 9, p. 399-404.
Redwine, L., 1981, Hypothesis combining dilation, natural hydraulic fracturing, and dolomitization to explain petroleum reservoirs in Monterey Shale, Santa Maria area, California, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Regan, L. J., Hughes, A.W., 1949, Fractured reservoirs of Santa Maria District, California: AAPG Bulletin, v. 33, p. 32-51.
Richter, F. M., Rowley, D. B., and DePaolo, D. J., 1992, Sr isotope evolution of seawater: The role of tectonics: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 109, p. 11-23.
Roehl, P. O., 1981, Dilation brecciation-proposed mechanism of fracturing, petroleum expulsion, and dolomitization in Monterey Formation, California, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Ruellkotter, J., and Isaacs, C. M., 1996, Monterey source rock facies and petroleum formation; a synthesis of results of the cooperative Monterey organic geochemistry study: Annual Meeting Abstracts - American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, v. 5, p. 123.
Schwalbach, J. R., and Bohacs, K. M., 1992, Sequence Stratigraphy in Fine-Grained Rocks: Examples from the Monterey Formation: Santa Fe Springs, Pacific Section SEPM, v. 70, p. 80.
Schwalbach, J. R., and Bohacs, K. M., 1995, Stratigraphic sections and gamma-ray spectrometry from five outcrops of the Monterey Formation in southwestern California; Naples Beach, Point Pedernales, Lion's Head, Shell Beach, and Point Buchon: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, v. 1995, p. Q1-Q39.
Snyder, W. S., 1987, Structure of the Monterey Formation: Stratigraphic, Diagenetic, and Tectonic Influences on Style and Timing, in Ingersoll, R. V., and Ernst, W. G., eds., Cenozoic Basin Development of Coastal California: Rubey Volume: Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall.
Snyder, W. S., Brueckner, H. K., and Schweickert, R. A., 1983, Deformational Styles in the Monterey Formation and other Siliceous Sedimentary Rocks, in Isaacs, C. M., and Garrison, R. E., eds., Petroleum Generation and Occurrence in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Soutar, A., Johnson, S. R., and Baumgartner, T. R., 1981, In search of modern analogs to the Monterey Formation, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Surdam, R. C., 1984, Stratigraphic, tectonic, Thermal, and Diagenetic Histories of the Monterey Formation, Pismo and Huasna Basin, California, SEPM Guidebook: Tulsa, OK, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 94.
Surdam, R. C., and Stanley, K. O., 1981, Diagenesis and migration of hydrocarbons in the Monterey Formation, Pismo syncline, California, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Taylor, J. C., 1976, Geologic Appraisal of the Petroleum Potential of Offshore Southern California: The Borderland Compared to Onshore Coastal Basins, U.S. Geological Survey Circular: Washington, D.C., 43 p.
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Vincent, E., and Berger, W. H., 1985, Carbon dioxide and global cooling in the Miocene: The Monterey Hypothesis, in Sundquist, E. T., and Broecker, W. S., eds., The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric CO2: Natural Variations Archean to Present: Geophysical Monographs: Washington, D.C., AGU.
Walker, A. L., McCulloh, T. H., Petersen, N. F., and Stewart, R. J., 1983, Anomalously low reflectance of vitrinite, in comparison with other petroleum source rock maturation indices, from the Miocene Modelo Formation in the Los Angeles Basin, California, in Isaacs, C. M., and Garrison, R. E., eds., Petroleum Generation and Occurrence in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
Weaver, F. M., Casey, R. E., and Perez, A. M., 1981, Stratigraphic and paleoceanographic significance of early Pliocene to middle Miocene radiolarian assemblages from northern to Baja California, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.
White, L. D., 1989, Chronostratigraphic and Paleoceanographic Aspects of Selected Chert Intervals in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California [Ph.D. thesis]: University of California, Santa Cruz, 236 p.
Williams, L. A., and Graham, S. A., 1982, Monterey Formation and Associated Coarse Clastic Rocks, Central San Joaquin Basin, California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM, p. 95.
Williams, L. A., Parks, G. A., and Crerar, D. A., 1985, Silica Diagenesis, I. Solubility Controls: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 55, p. 301-311.
Woodring, W. P., and Bramlette, M. N., 1950, Geology and Paleoecology of the Santa Maria District, California, U.S.G.S. Professional Paper: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government, 185 p.
Woodring, W. P., Bramlette, M. N., and Kew, W. S., 1946, Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California, USGS Professional Paper, U.S. Government, 145 p.
Woodring, W. P., Bramlette, M. N., and Lohman, K. E., 1943, Stratigraphy and paleontology of Santa Maria District, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 27, p. 1335-1361.

Woodruff, F., and Savin, S. M., 1989, Miocene deepwater oceanography: Paleoceanography, v. 4, p. 87-140.

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Monterey And Related Sedimentary rocks

Monterey-Related Publications (Monterey, Neogene stratigraphy, diagenesis, and structure)

Barron, J. A., 1986a, Paleoceanographic and tectonic controls on deposition of the Monterey Formation and related siliceous rocks in California: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 53, p. 27-45.

Barron, J. A., 1986b, Updated diatom biostratigraphy for the Monterey Formation of California, in Casey, R. E., and Barron, J. A., eds., Siliceous Microfossil and Microplankton of the Monterey Formation and Modern Analogs: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.

Barron, J. A., and Isaacs, C. M., in press, Updated Chronostratigraphic Framework for the California Miocene, in Isaacs, C. M., and Rullkötter, J., eds., The Monterey Formation: from Rocks to Molecules, Columbia University Press.

Behl, R. J., 1992, Chertification in the Monterey Formation of California and Deep-Sea Sediments of the West Pacific [Ph.D. thesis]: University of California, Santa Cruz, 287 p.

Behl, R.J., 1999. Milton Nunn Bramlette (biographical sketch). In Moores, Sloan, and Stout (Eds.), Classic Cordilleran Concepts: A View From California, Special Publication 338, Geological Society of America, p. 274.

Behl, R.J., 1999. Since Bramlette (1946): the Miocene Monterey Formation of California Revisited. In Moores, Sloan, and Stout (Eds.), Classic Cordilleran Concepts: A View From California, Special Publication 338, Geological Society of America, p. 301-313.

Behl, R.J., 2011, Chert spheroids of the Monterey Formation, California (USA): early diagenetic structures of bedded siliceous deposits, Sedimentology. published online: 28 Jun 2010; v. 58, p. 325–351.

Behl, R.J., and Ingle, J.C., Jr., 1998. The Sisquoc/Foxen Boundary in the Santa Maria Basin, California: sedimentary response to the new tectonic regime. US Geological Survey Bulletin, 1995, Chapter V, p. V1-V16.

Behl, R.J., and Smith, B.M.,1992. Silicification of deep sea sediments and the oxygen isotope composition of diagenetic siliceous rocks from the western Pacific, Pigafetta and East Mariana Basins, ODP Leg 129. Proc. O.D.P., Sci. Res., 129, p. 81-117, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).

Biddle, K. T., 1991, The Los Angeles Basin: an overview, in Biddle, K. T., ed., Active Margin Basins, AAPG Memoir 52.

Blake, G. H., 1991, Review of the Neogene Biostratigraphy and Stratigraphy of the Los Angeles Basin and Implications for Basin Evolution, in Biddle, K. T., ed., Active Margin Basins, AAPG Memoir 52.

Bohrmann, G., Abelmann, A., Gersonde, R., Hubberten, H., and Kuhn, G., 1994, Pure siliceous ooze, a diagenetic environment for early chert formation: Geology, v. 22, p. 207-210.

Bramlette, M. N., 1946, The Monterey Formation of California and the Origin of its Siliceous Rocks, U.S.G.S. Professional Paper: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government, 57 p.

Burns, S. J., and Baker, P. A., 1987, A geochemical study of dolomite in the Monterey Formation, California: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 57, p. 128-139.

Cady, S. L., Wenk, H. R., and Downing, K. H., 1996, HRTEM of microcrystalline opal in chert and porcelanite from the Monterey Formation, California: American Mineralogist, v. 81, p. 1380-1395.

Calvert, S. E., 1966, Accumulation of diatomaceous silica in the sediments of the Gulf of California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 77, p. 569-596.

Calvert, S. E., 1968, Silica balance in the ocean and diagenesis: Nature, v. 219, p. 919-920.

Canfield, C. R., 1939, Subsurface stratigraphy of Santa Maria Valley Oil Field and adjacent parts of Santa Maria Valley, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 23, p. 45-81.

Casey, R. E., and Barron, J. A., 1986, Siliceous Microfossil and Microplankton of the Monterey Formation and Modern Analogs: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM, p. 147.

Compton, J. S., 1991, Origin and diagenesis of clay minerals in the Monterey Formation, Santa Maria Basin area, California: Clays and Clay Minerals, v. 39, p. 449-466.

Compton, J. S., Snyder, S. W., and Hodell, D. A., 1990, Phosphogenesis and weathering of shelf sediments from the southeastern United States: Implications for Miocene δ13C excursions and global cooling: Geology, v. 18, p. 1227-1230.

Crain, W. E., Mero, W. E., and Patterson, D., 1985, Geology of the Point Arguello discovery: AAPG Bulletin, v. 69, p. 537-545.

Crawford, F. D., 1971, Petroleum potential of Santa Maria province, California, in Cram, I. H., ed., Future Petroleum Provinces of the United States - their geology and potential: Tulsa, American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Crouch, J. A., and Bukry, D., 1979, Comparison of Miocene provincial foraminiferal stages to coccoliths in the California continental borderland: Geology, v. 7, p. 211-215.

Crouch, J. K., and Suppe, J., 1993, Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Los Angeles basin and inner California borderland: a model for core complex-like crustal extension: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, p. 1415-1434.

Curiale, J. A., Cameron, D., and Davis, D. V., 1985, Biological marker distribution and significance in oils and rocks of the Monterey Formation, California: Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, v. 49, p. 271-288.

DePaolo, D. J., and Finger, K. L., 1991, High-resolution strontium-isotope stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Miocene Monterey Formation, central California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 103, p. 112-124.

Dunham, J. B., and Blake, G. H., 1987, Guide to coastal outcrops of the Monterey Formation of western Santa Barbara county, California., in Dunham, J. B., ed., Guide to coastal outcrops of the Monterey Formation of western Santa Barbara county, California.: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.

Dunkel, C. A., and Piper, K. A., 1997, 1995 National Assessment of United States Oil and Gas Resources: Assessment of the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Region: U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service, MMS 97-0019.

Eichhubl, P., 1997, Scale, Rates, and Timing of Fracture-Related Fluid Flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation, Coastal California [Ph.D. thesis]: University of California, Santa Barbara, 298 p.

Eichhubl, P., 1998, Diagenesis, Deformation, and Fluid Flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation, Special Publication: Palo Alto, Pacific Section SEPM, v. 83, p. 98.

Eichhubl, P., and Behl, R. J., 1998, Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation, in Eichhubl, P., ed., Diagenesis, Deformation, and Fluid Flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation: Special Publication: Palo Alto, Pacific Section SEPM.

Eichhubl, P., and Behl, R.J., 1998. Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation. In P. Eichhubl (Ed.), Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation, Special Publication Pacific Section SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), 83, 5-13.

Filippelli, G.M., Delaney, M.L., Garrison, R.E., Omarzai, S.K., and Behl, R.J., 1994. Phosphorus accumulation rates in a Miocene low oxygen basin: the Monterey Formation (Pismo Basin), California. Marine Geology, 116, p. 419-430.

Finger, K. L., 1995, Recognition of middle Miocene foraminifers in highly indurated rocks of the Monterey Formation, coastal Santa Maria province, central California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, v. 1995L, p. L1-L30.

Finkbeiner, T., Barton, C. A., and Zoback, M. D., 1997, Relationships Among In-Situ Stress, Fractures and Faults, and Fluid Flow: Monterey Formation, Santa Maria Basin, California: AAPG Bulletin, v. 81, p. 1975-1999.

Flower, B. P., and Kennett, J. P., 1993, Relations between Monterey Formation deposition and middle Miocene global cooling: Naples Beach section, California: Geology, v. 21, p. 877-880.

Flower, B. P., and Kennett, J. P., 1994, Oxygen and carbon isotopic stratigraphy of the Monterey Formation at Naples Beach, California, in Hornafius, J. S., ed., Field Guide to the Monterey Formation between Santa Barbara and Gaviota, California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section AAPG., p. 59-66

Föllmi, K. B., Garrison, R. E., and Grimm, K. A., 1991, Stratification in phosphatic sediments: illustrations from the Neogene of California, in Einsele, G., Ricken, W., and Seilacher, A., eds., Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy: Berlin, Springer-Verlag.

Foss, C. D., and Blaisdell, R., 1968, Stratigraphy of the west side southern San Joaquin Valley, in Karp, S. E., ed., Guidebook, Geology and Oilfields West Side Southern San Joaquin Valley: Bakersfield, Pacific Section AAPG.

Friedman, I., and Murata, K. J., 1979, Origin of Dolomite in Miocene Monterey Shale and Related Formations in the Temblor Range, California: Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, v. 43, p. 1357-1365.

Fritsche, A. E., 1998, Miocene palinspastic restoration of southwestern California: AAPG Bulletin, v. 82, p. 847-848.

Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., 1981, The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM, p. 327.

Garrison, R. E., Kastner, M., and Reimers, C. E., 1990, Miocene Phosphogenesis in California, in Burnett, W. C., and Riggs, S. R., eds., Phosphate deposits of the world; Neogene to modern phosphorites: New York, NY, USA, Cambridge Univ. Press.

Garrison, R. E., Kastner, M., and Zenger, D. H., 1984, Dolomites of the Monterey Formation and Other Organic-Rich Units: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM, p. 215.

Global Geochemistry Corporation, 1985, The Geochemical and Paleoenvironmental history of the Monterey Formation -- Sediments and Hydrocarbons: Canoga Park, CA, Global Geochemistry Corporation, 459 p.

Govean, F. M., and Garrison, R. E., 1981, Significance of laminated and massive diatomites in the upper part of the Monterey Formation, California, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.

Graham, S. A., and Williams, L. A., 1985, Tectonic, depositional, and diagenetic history of Monterey Formation (Miocene), central San Joaquin basin, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 69, p. 385-411.

Grivetti, M. C., 1982, Aspects of Stratigraphy, Diagenesis, and Deformation in the Monterey Formation Near Santa Maria-Lompoc, California [Master's thesis]: University California, Santa Barbara, 155 p.

Gross, M. R., 1993, The origin and spacing of cross joints: examples from the Monterey Formation, Santa Barbara Coastline, California: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 15, p. 737-751.

Gross, M. R., Gutierrez-Alonso, G., Bai, T., Wacker, M.A., Collinsworth, K.B., Behl, R.J., 1997, Influence of mechanical stratigraphy and kinematics on fault scaling relations: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 19, p. 171-183.

Gross, M.R., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Bai, T., Wacker, M.A., Collinsworth, K.B., and Behl, R.J., 1997. Influence of mechanical stratigraphy and kinematics on fault scaling relations. Journal of Structural Geology, 19, no. 2, p.171-183.

Hill, M. L., Carlson, S. A., and Dibblee, T. W., Jr., 1958, Stratigraphy of the Cuyama Valley and Caliente Range area, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 42, p. 2973-3000.

Hornafius, J. S., 1991, Facies analysis of the Monterey Formation in the northern Santa Barbara Channel: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 75, p. 894-909.

Hornafius, J. S., 1994a, Field Guide to the Monterey Formation Between Santa Barbara and Gaviota, California: Bakersfield, Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. GB-72, p. 123.

Hunt, J. M., 1979, Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology: San Francisco, W.H. Freeman, 617 p.

Ingersoll, R. V., and Ernst, W. G., 1987, Cenozoic Basin Development of Coastal California, Rubey Volume: Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, p. 496.

Ingle, J. C., Jr., 1973, Summary comments on Neogene biostratigraphy, physical stratigraphy, and paleo-oceanography in the marginal northeastern Pacific Ocean, Initial Reports Deep Sea Drilling Program, DSDP, p. 163-195.

Ingle, J. C., Jr., 1980, Cenozoic paleobathymetry and depositional history of selected sequences within the Southern California Continental Borderland, Cushman Foundation Special Publication, p. 163-195.

Ingle, J. C., Jr., 1981b, Origin of Neogene Diatomites around the north Pacific rim, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.

Isaacs, C. M., 1980, Diagenesis in the Monterey Formation Examined Laterally Along the Coast Near Santa Barbara, California [Ph.D. thesis]: Stanford University, 329 p.

Isaacs, C. M., 1981a, Guide to the Monterey Formation in the California coastal area, Ventura to San Luis Obispo, Pacific Section American Association Petroleum Geologists, p. 91.

Isaacs, C. M., 1981d, Porosity reduction during diagenesis of the Monterey Formation, Santa Barbara coastal area, California, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.

Isaacs, C. M., 1982, Influence of rock composition on kinetics of silica phase changes in the Monterey Formation, Santa Barbara area, California: Geology, v. 10, p. 304-308.

Isaacs, C. M., 1983, Compositional variation and sequence in the Miocene Monterey Formation, Santa Barbara coastal area, California, in Larue, D.K., Steel, R.J., ed., Cenozoic Marine Sedimentation, Pacific Margin, SEPM Pacific Section Special Publication.

Isaacs, C. M., 1984, The Monterey - key to offshore California boom, Oil & Gas Journal, p. 75-81.

Isaacs, C. M., 1985, Abundance versus rates of accumulation in fine-grained strata of the Miocene Santa Barbara basin, California: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 5, p. 25-30.

Isaacs, C. M., and Garrison, R. E., 1983, Petroleum Generation and Occurrence in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM, p. 228.

Isaacs, C. M., and Magoon, L. B., 1984, Thermal indicators of organic matter in the Sisquoc and Monterey Formations, Santa Maria Basin, California: Annual Midyear Meeting Abstracts - Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 40.

Isaacs, C. M., and Petersen, N. F., 1987, Petroleum in the Miocene Monterey Formation, California, in Hein, J. R., ed., Siliceous Sedimentary Rock-Hosted Ores and Petroleum: Evolution of Ore Fields: New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Isaacs, C. M., and Rullkötter, J., in press, The Monterey Formation: from Rocks to Molecules, Columbia University Press.

Isaacs, C. M., in press, Depositional framework of the Monterey Formation, California, in Isaacs, C. M., and Rullkötter, J., eds., The Monterey Formation: from Rocks to Molecules, Columbia University Press.

Kastner, M., Keene, J.B., Gieskes, J.M., 1977, Diagenesis of siliceous oozes-I. Chemical controls on the rate of opal-A to opal-CT transformation-an experimental study: Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 41, p. 1041-1059.

Kastner, M., Mertz, K., Hollander, D., and Garrison, R., 1984, The association of dolomite-phosphorite-chert: causes and possible diagenetic sequences, in Garrison, R. E., Kastner, M., and Zenger, D. H., eds., Dolomites of The Monterey Formation and Other Organic-Rich Units, Pacific Section SEPM.

Keller, G., and Barron, J. A., 1981, Integrated planktic foraminiferal and diatom biochronology for the northeast Pacific and the Monterey Formation, in Garrison, R. E., and Douglas, R. G., eds., The Monterey Formation and Related Siliceous Rocks of California: Los Angeles, Pacific Section SEPM.

Keller, G., and Barron, J. A., 1983, Paleoceanographic implications of Miocene deep-sea hiatuses: Bulletin Geological Society of America, v. 94, p. 590-613.

Keller, M. A., and Isaacs, C. M., 1985, An evaluation of temperature scales for silica diagenesis in diatomaceous sequence including a new approach based on the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 5, p. 31-35.