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The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database

Pacific Section of AAPG

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Field Guide to the Monterey Formation between Santa Barbara and Gaviota, California, 1994
Pages 17-28

Detailed Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of the Naples Bluff Section

Gregg H. Blake

Abstract

An integrated biostratigraphic and paleoecologic study of the Naples Bluff coastal section was completed utilizing diatoms, calcareous nannoplankton, and benthic foraminifera. This section is 1800 ft. thick and represents one of the most completely exposed marine Neogene sections along the central coast of California.

This sequence contains well preserved diatom floras and benthic foraminiferal faunas that enabled the integration of diatom biochronology with the provincial Miocene benthic foraminiferal stages of Kleinpell (1938, 1980) and the construction of a sediment accumulation curve for the stratigraphic section.

Benthic foraminiferal biofacies provide a detailed analysis of the paleoenvironmental and paleobathymetric history for the sediments of the Naples Bluff section. The biofacies demonstrate that the depositional setting changed several times throughout the section, ranging from lower middle bathyal to upper bathyal. The top of the section shallowed to neritic depths.


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