Download or read book Recent Sediments of Monterey Bay California written by Thomas E. Yancey and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monterey Bay, California's second largest bay, is the focus of drainage for three rivers draining an area in excess of 6,000 square miles in the adjacent Coast Ranges. The possibility that Monterey Bay has served as the outlet for drainage of the Central Valley during the late Tertiary has been suggested by many people, and the presence of the largest submarine canyon and the largest deep sea fan in California outside Monterey Bay is supporting evidence for this theory. The present work is primarily a description of the sediment cover in Monterey Bay and an analysis of the numerous variables controlling the distribution and accumulation of sediment within the bay. (Author).
Download or read book Recent Sediments of Monterey Bay written by Thomas E. Yancey and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heavy mineralogy of the sand fraction for beach samples reported by Sayles (1966) and 10 new offshore samples from South Monterey Bay was determined optically. For each sample the percentage of the more diagnostic transparent minerals is plotted graphically in order of persistence: zircon, garnet, biotite, apatite, clinozoisite and epidote, lawsonite, green hornblende, oxy-horneblende, glaucophane, sphene, zoisite, augite, jadeite, hypersthene, enstatite, and tremolite and actinolite. Additional data on accessory transparent minerals, composite grains (rock fragments) and opaque minerals are listed with each graph. An updated bibliography is presented to include all new work on the geology and sediment of Monterey Bay. (Author).
Download or read book Sediments of Monterey Bay California written by Edgar Wayne Galliher and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reconnaissance High resolution Geophysical Survey of the Monterey Bay California Inner Shelf written by John L. Chin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Analysis of the Sediments of Southern Monterey Bay California written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recent Sediments of the Monterey Deep sea Fan written by Pat Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Analyses of the Sediments of Southern Monterey Bay California written by Gordon M. Monteath and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Monterey Submarine Canyon California Moored Array Data Report written by Kaye Kinoshita and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Patterns and Mass Transport of Clastic Sediments in the Near shore Regions of Monterey Bay written by Stephen Charles Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Southern Monterey Bay Littoral Cell written by Craig E. Dorman and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sediment budget was developed for southern Monterey Bay, California. This budget is based heavily upon sediment information obtained from field and laboratory studies. These studies included a detailed quasi-synoptic areal sampling to determine distribution of textural patterns, and a time-series study of beach and surf-zone sand samples obtained from local sand-mining companies. Results from these studies were combined with data on river discharge, the wind and wave regimes, and shoreline changes during the past century to develop quantitative estimates of sediment gains and losses to the cell. It was determined that the major sources of sediment are the discharge from the Salinas River which empties into the northeast corner of the cell, and erosion of Quaternary seacliffs which form the inner bay shore. Major sinks are the Monterey Submarine Canyon, active coastal dune fields, the mining companies, and the offshore area. The recent history of the sediment regime in the southern bay is reviewed, and a forecast of future nearshore changes is made. Recommendations for further work needed to refine the budget computations are presented. (Author).
Download or read book Shoreface Sediments in Northern Monterey Bay California Grain Size Distributions and Transport Boundaries written by Ryan R. Seelbach and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Reconnaissance Heavy Mineral Study of Monterey Bay Beach Sediment written by Frederick L. Sayles and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conclusions: The compositional changes that occur along the beaches of Monterey are not the result of selective sorting processes but rather reflect changes in the source sediment. Such changes may result from several different supply-littoral transport conditions. The changes which may occur at river mouths may reflect a flooding out of littorally transported sediment; changes not related to rivers may reflect local supply from cliff erosion. In the absence of any significant supply of sediment from rivers and cliff erosion these changes must reflect a lack of littoral transport and prior conditions which produced the observed mineralogical pattern. Only in areas devoid of long-term net littoral transport can such relict sedimentary dispersal patterns be preserved.
Download or read book Sediment Budget for Monterey Bay written by Emmanuel N. Oradiwe and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sediment budget analysis based on the principle of mass conservation is performed for Monterey Bay. The various littoral processes in the Bay are evaluated quantitatively. The results indicate that about 2.1 million cubic yards of sand are deposited annually into the Bay, which is treated as a quasi-closed system. Deposition from cliff erosion, computed from the cliffs profile changes, amounted to 5.6 million cubic yards, and accounted for 27% of the total deposit. River discharges were extrapolated using a power law formula; the total yield was 1.4 million cubic yards, representing 54% of the entire sediment deposition. The potential longshore drift was evaluated using a 18 years spectral wave climatology; its contribution was 4.09 million cubic yards which amounts to 19%. Sediment losses accrued from submarine canyon deposition, sand mining operations, offshore deposition by rip currents and eolian sediment transport to the dunes; these losses amounted to 2.34 million cubic yards and were all estimates taken from previous studies. The budget deficit signifies an erosion trend along the Bay. The effects of sand mining to coastal erosion are discussed. Recommendations needed to refine the budget analysis and to establish a correlation between the budget deficit and shoreline erosion are presented for further research.
Download or read book Rocky Coasts and Inverse Methods written by James Fulton Tait and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earthquake Induced Liquefaction and Slumping of Offshore Sediments Monterey Bay California written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recent Marine Sediments written by Parker Davies Trask and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recent Marine Sediments a Symposium written by Parker Davies Trask and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
