10.1007/s003670050066
https://zenodo.org/records/1232699
oai:zenodo.org:1232699
Normark, W. R.
W. R.
Normark
Late Pleistocene channel–levee development on Monterey submarine fan, central California
Zenodo
1998
1998-09-01
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Much of the modern upper (proximal) Monterey fan is a channel–levee complex, the Upper Turbidite Sequence (UTS), that was deeply eroded after the channel breached a volcanic ridge to reach a deeper base level. Ages of sediment samples collected with the ALVIN submersible from the deepest outcrop within the channel–levee system, 390 m below the adjacent western levee crest, indicate that the UTS deposits accumulated at ≥1 m ka−1 during the last 500 ka. Neogene and Early Pleistocene sediment accumulation on the fan prior to the UTS was much slower (