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Selected Geologic References

Agnew, D. and Sieh, K., 1978, A documentary study of the felt effects of the great California earthquake of 1857: Seismol. Soc. America Bull., 68, pp. 1717-1729.

Allen, C.R., 1968,The tectonic environments of seismically active and inactive areas along the San Andreas Fault system, in W.R. Dickinson and A. Grantz, eds., Proceedings of conference on geologic problems of San Andreas fault system, Stanford University Publications in the Geological Sciences, 70-82.

Arnold, R., and H. R. Johnson, 1908, Sodium Sulphate in Soda Lake, Carriso Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California, Contributions to Economic Geology 1908, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 380, pp. 369-72.

Arnold, R. and H.R. Johnson, 1910, Preliminary report on the McKittrick-Sunset oil region, Kern and San Luis Obispo counties, California, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 406.

Arrowsmith, J R., Potential for earthquake rupture and M 7 earthquakes along the Parkfield, Cholame, and Carrizo segments of the San Andreas Fault, Seismological Research Letters, v. 68, p. 323.

Arrowsmith, R. and D. D. Rhodes, 1992, Kinematics, structure, and degradation of pressure ridges along the San Andreas fault in the Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California,Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 24, 3.

Arrowsmith, J. Ramon, 1995, Coupled tectonic deformation and geomorphic degradation along the San Andreas fault system: Ph. D. dissertation, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 346 p.

Arrowsmith, J R., McNally, K., and Davis, J., 1997, Potential for earthquake rupture and M 7 earthquakes along the Parkfield, Cholame, and Carrizo segments of the San Andreas fault,Seismological Research Letters, v. 68, no. 6, p. 902-916.

Arrowsmith, J R., 1998, Rhodes, D. D., and Pollard, D. D., Morphologic dating of scarps formed by repeated slip events along the San Andreas Fault, Carrizo Plain, California, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 103, N. B5, pp. 10,141-10,160.

Arrowsmith, J R., D. D. Pollard, and D. D. Rhodes, 1995, Morphologic dating of scarps along the San Andreas fault, Carrizo Plain, California and progressive deformation along the Big Bend, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 1995 Annual meeting.

Arrowsmith, R., 1992, Progressive deformation and degradation along the northern portion of the Big Bend of the San Andreas fault, Geological Society of America Ab. with Programs, 24, A147.

Arrowsmith, J R., D. D. Pollard, G. Hilley, and D. D. Rhodes, 1995, Morphologic dating of scarps along the San Andreas fault, Carrizo Plain, California and progressive deformation along the Big Bend, EOS Transactions AGU, 1995 Fall AGU Meeting.

Arrowsmith, R., 1989, Geomorphic responses in ephemeral channels to strike-slip faulting along the San Andreas fault, Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California, 67 pp., Whittier College, Whittier, California.

Arrowsmith, J.R., and Rhodes, D.D., 1989, Geomorphic responses of ephemeral streams to strike-slip movement along the San Andreas Fault, Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 21, no. 6, p. A59.

Arrowsmith, R., The Northern Elkhorn Hills, 1991, A 2 km wide deformation zone near the Big Bend of the San Andreas fault, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 23, 4.

Arrowsmith, J.R., and Rhodes, D.D., 1992, Kinematics, structure, and degradation of pressure ridges along the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, p. A3.

Arrowsmith, J.R., Pollard, D.D., and Rhodes, D.D., 1995, Morphologic dating of scarps along the San Andreas Fault, Carrizo Plain, California and progressive deformation along the Big Bend: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 6, p. A221-A222.

Arrowsmith, J.R., Pollard, D.D., Hilley, G., and Rhodes, D.D., 1995, Morphologic dating of scarps along the San Andreas fault, Carrizo Plain, California and progressive deformation along the Big Bend: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 76, no. 46, p. F575.

Arrowsmith, J R., 1996, Stop 5--Three quick stops along the San Andreas fault northwest of Highway 166, in Dholakia, S., Lore, J., and Brankman, C., eds., Fault control on hydrocarbon migration in the Monterey formation, CA, Proceedings of the Stanford Rock Fracture Project, pp. 5-1 - 5-7.

Arrowsmith, J.R., Grant, L., and Rhodes, D.D., 1997, Investigation of historic and paleoseismic behavior of the south-central San Andreas Fault between Cholame and the Carrizo Plain: Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting Abstracts.

Arrowsmith, J.R., Rhodes, D.D., and Pollard, D.D.,1998, Morphologic dating of scarps formed by repeated slip events along the San Andreas Fault, Carrizo Plain, California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 103, p. 10141-10160.

Barger, R. M., et al, 1952, Russell Ranch Oil Field, California Division of Oil and Gas, Vol. 38, No. 2, p. 5-10.

Bartow, J. A., 1974, Sedimentology of the Simmler and Vaqueros Formations in the Caliente Range-Carrizo Plain Area, California, United Stated Geological Survey Open File Report 74-338.

Bartow, J. A., 1990, Geologic map of the northwestern Caliente Range San Luis Obispo County, California: U. S. Geological Survey Map I-2077.

Bramlette, M. N., 1946, The Monterey Formation of California and the origin of its siliceous rocks: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 212.

Bakun, W. H., March, 1988, Historic Seismicity of the Parkfield Area: California Division of Mines and Geology, California Geology, Vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 61-62.

Bakun, W. H., September, 1988, Parkfield Earthquake Prediction Experiment Geophysical Instrumentation Near Parkfield and Parkfield Earthquake Prediction Alert Levels: California Division of Mines and Geology, California Geology, Vol. 41, no. 9, pp. 205-208.

Bakun, W. H., et al, 1988, Parkfield The Prediction and the Promise, Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Vol. 20, Number 2.

Brown, R. D., et al, 1967, The Parkfield-Cholame California, Earthquakes of June-August 1966-Surface Geologic Effects Water-Resources Aspects, and Preliminary Seismic Data, Geological Survey Professional Paper 579.

Carter, J. B., 1985, Depositional Environments of the Type Temblor Formation, Chico Martinez Creek, Kern County, California, Geology of the Temblor Formation Western San Joaquin Basin, California, SEPM-Pacific Section.

Cawley, J, J., 1962, Aborigines of the Carrizo Plains in Guidebook to the geology of Carrizo Plain and San Andreas fault, San Joaquin Geology Society and Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Society Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 36.

Clark, W. B., 1970, Gold Districts of California, California Division of Mines and Geology, Bulletin 193, p. 179.

Crider, J. G., M. L. Cooke, E. J. M. Willemse, and Arrowsmith, J R., 1996, Basic mechanics of jointing and faulting through interactive linear-elastic crack models, in Microcomputers in structural geology, D. De Paor, editor, pp. 359-388.

Cooper, Jon W., 1990, A geophysical study of the hydrogeology of the Carrizo Plain area, San Luis Obispo County, California: MS dissertation, San Jose State University, San Jose California, 77 p.

Dibblee, T, W., Jr., 1962, Displacements on the San Andreas rift zone and related structures in Carrizo Plain and vicinity, in Guidebook to the geology of Carrizo Plain and San Andreas fault, San Joaquin Geology Society and Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Society Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p. 5-12, pl. 1.

Dibblee, T. W., Jr., 1973, Regional Geologic Map of San Andreas and related Faults in Carrizo Plain, Temblor, Caliente, and La Panza Ranges and Vicinity, California, U. S. Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-757.

Dibblee, T. W., Jr., 1973, Stratigraphy of the Southern Coast Ranges near the San Andreas Fault from Cholame to Maricopa, California, Geological Survey Professional Paper 764.

Dibblee, T. W., Jr., 1989, The San Andreas Fault and Major Rock Terranes of California Displaced by It and Its Tectonics, South Coast Geological Society, Inc., Guidebook Number 17, San Andreas Fault, Cajon Pass to Wallace Creek, Vol. 1, pp. 223-275.

Dolman, S. B., 1950, Operations in District 3: California Division of Oil and Gas, Summary of Operations in California Oil Fields Vol. 36 No.2.

Dougherty, Jack F., 1940, A new Miocene mammalian fauna from Caliente Mountain, California: Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication v. 518 n. 8, p. 109-143.

Durham, D. L., 1979, Preliminary map of uranium occurrences in the Temblor Range, Kern and San Luis Obispo Counties, California: U.S. Geological Survey Map MF-1047.

Durham, D. L., 1987, Uranium in the Monterey Formation of California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1581.

Eaton, J. E., 1939, Geology and Oil Possibilities of Caliente Range, Cuyama Valley, and Carrizo Plain, California, California Journal of Mines and Geology, Vol. 35, No. 3, p. 255-274.

Eigenbrode, J., Davis, C., Pratt, L.M., Arrowsmith, J.R., Rhodes, D.D., and Rossbacher, L.A., 1997, Climate change recorded by sedimentary organic matter in Soda Lake, southern California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 6, p. A155.

Eigenbrode, J.L., Pratt, L.M., Rhodes, D.D., Arrowsmith, JR., Mora, G., 1999, Sedimentological and carbon-isotopic records of late Holocene climate in the sediments of Soda Lake, Carrizo Plain, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31.Annali di Geofisica, v. 39, p. 1301-1307.

Ellsworth, W.L., 1990, Earthquake history, 1769-1989, in The San Andreas fault system,, (edited by R.E. Wallace), United States Geological Survey, 153-181.

 

Fleischer, M., 1975, 1975 Glossary of mineral Species (Mineralogical Record: Bowie, Maryland) 145 p.

Gale, H. S., 1912, Sodium Sulphate in the Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California, Contributions to Economic Geology, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 540, pp. 428-33.

Gazin, C. L. 1930, Tertiary mammal-bearing beds in the upper Cuyama drainage basin, Califronia: Ph. D. thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 62 p.

Gower, H. D., and Beth M. Madsen, 1964, The occurrence of phosphate rock in California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 501- d, p. D79-D85.

Gower, H. D., 1966, Phosphate in Mineral Resources of California: California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin 191, p. 328-332.

Graff, L. B., 1962, Exploration drilling in the Carrizo Plain, in Guidebook: geology of Carrizo Plains and San Andreas fault, (edited by O. Hackell), San Joaquin Geological Society and Pacific Section, AAPG and SEPM, 21 - 23.

Grant, L. and K. E. Sieh, 1990, Stratigraphic evidence that offset from the 1857 Earthquake in the Carizzo Plain, CA, is less than suggested from geomorphology, in Eos, Trans. Amer. Geophys. U., 71,1452.

Grant, L., and K. Sieh, submitted 1992, Irregular recurrence times and increased seismic hazard from earthquakes on the Carrizo segment of the San Andreas fault, southern California: Association Engineering Geologists Annual meeting, Long Beach, California, October 1992.

Grant, L. B., K. Sieh, 1993, Paleoseismic Evidence of Clustered Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, CA: in EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophsy. U., 74, p. 427

Grant, L., and K. Sieh, 1993, Stratigraphic evidence for 7 meters of dextral slip on the San Andreas fault during the great 1857 earthquake in the Carrizo Plain: Seismol. Soc. America Bull., 83, 619-635.

Grant, Lisa Baugh, 1993, Characterization of Large Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain: Implications for fault mechanics and seismic hazard: Ph. D. dissertation, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Grant, L. B., K. Sieh, 1994, Paleoseismic Evidence of Clustered Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, CA.: Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 6819- 6842.

Grant, L. B., Arrowsmith, J R., Stone, E. M., and Rhodes, D. D., 1998, Investigation of historic land surveys across the San Andreas Fault between Cholame and the Carrizo Plain - Preliminary Results, Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting.

Hall, N. and Sieh, K., 1977, Late Holocene rate of slip on the San Andreas fault in the northern Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California: in Abstracts with Programs, Cordilleran Section, Geol. Soc. America, 9, no. 4, pp. 428-429.

Harris, R.A. and R.J. Archuleta, 1987, Slip budget and potential for a M7 earthquake in Central California, Geophysical Research Letters, 15, No. 11 pp. 1215-1218.

Hackel, O., Editor, 1962, Guidebook Geology of Carrizo Plains and San Andreas Fault 1962, San Joaquin Geological Society and Pacific Section, AAPG-SEPM.

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Hill, M. L., March, 1981, San Andreas Fault: History of Concepts, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Part 1, Vol. 92, pp. 112-131.

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Hilley, G., R Arrowsmith, D D Pollard, 1996, A geographic information system applied to areas of active tectonics, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 1996 Annual meeting, v. 28, no. 7, p. 265.

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Isaacs, C. M., 1981, Porosity reduction during diagenesis of the Monterey Formation, Santa Barbara Area California in The Monterey Formation and related siliceous rocks of California: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Symposium.

Jacoby, G., P. Sheppard and K. Sieh, 1988, Irregular recurrence of large earthquakes along the San Andreas fault in southern California -- Evidence from trees near Wrightwood: Science, 241, 196-199.

Kelly, Thomas, S., and E. Bruce Lander, 1988, Biostratigraphy and correlation of Hemingordian and Barstovian land mammal assemblages, Caliente Formation, Cuyama Valley area, California in Bazeley, W. J. M., ed.,1998, Tertiary Tectonics and sedimentation in the Cuyama Basin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, California: Pacific Section S.E.P.M., vol. 59, p. 1-9

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Lienkaemper, J.J. and T.A. Sturm, Reconstruction of a channel offset in 1857(?) by the San Andreas Fault near Cholame, California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 79, 901-909, 1989.

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Meisling, K.E. and Sieh, K., 1979, The effect of the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake on trees near Wrightwood and Frazier Park, California: in Abstracts with Programs, Cordilleran Section, Geol. Soc. America, 11, no. 7, p. 478.

Meisling, K.E. and Sieh, K., 1980, Disturbance of trees by the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake, California: J. Geophys. Res., 85, pp. 3225-3238.

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Murata, K. J., Dibblee, T. W., Jr., and Drinkwater, J. L., 1979, Thermal effects of large bodies of intrusive serpentinite on overlying Monterey Shale, southern Diablo Range, Cholame area, California: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1082, 8 p.

Oldershaw, Michael William, 1990, Depositional environments and paleogeography of the Miocene Painted Rock Sandstone Member of the Vaqueros Formation in the southeastern Caliente Range, San Luis Obispo County, California: MS dissertation, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California, 124 p.

Pisciotto, K. A., and Garrison, R. E., 1981, Lithofacies and depositional environments of the Monterey Formation, California in The Monterey Formation and related siliceous rocks of California: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Symposium.

Pollard, D. D., and Arrowsmith, J R., 1995, The temporal and spatial development of deformation and degradation along strike-slip fault bends, National earthquake hazards reduction program annual project summaries: XXXVI, v. 1, p. 149-157.

Prentice, C.S., and K. Sieh, 1989, A paleoseismic site along the Carrizo segment of the San Andreas Fault, central California: in Eos, Trans. Amer. Geophys. U., 70, 1349.

Repenning, C. A., and Vedder, J. G., 1961, Continental vertebrates and their stratigraphic correlation with marine mollusks, eastern Caliente Range, California: US Geological Survey Professional Paper 424-C, p. C235-C239.

Roberts, A. E., 1981, Phosphatic Rock Localities in California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-260, 76 pp.

Raleigh, C.B., Sieh, K., Sykes, L.R. and Anderson, D.L., 1982, Forecasting southern California earthquakes: Science, 217, pp. 1097-1104.

Reid, D. A., Graham, R. J., and C. Amrhein, 1993, Slickspot soil genesis in the Carrizo Plain, California: Soil Science Society of America Journal, vol 57, no. 1 p. 162- 168.

Rhodes, D.D., and Arrowsmith, J.R., 1991, Variation and evolution of gullies formed on a pressure ridge adjacent to the San Andreas Fault, Carrizo Plain, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. A91.

Rhodes, D.D., Arrowsmith, J R., Kilpatrick, J.P., and Eigenbrode, J., 1998, Clay dunes at Soda Lake, Carrizo Plain, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, no. 7, p. A140.

Robinson, S. E., J R. Arrowsmith, D. E., Granger, and F. M. Phillips, 1998, Using remote sensing and cosmogenic nuclides to determine the geometry of alluvial fan deposits and the timing of their deposition,Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 1998 Annual meeting, v. xx, p. xxx.

Ryder, Robert T. and Alan Thompson, 1989, Tectonically controlled fan delta and submarine fan sedimentation of late Miocene Age, southern Temblor Range, California: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1442, 59 p.

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Sieh, K. and Jahns, R.H., 1976, 1857 Displacements along the San Andreas fault between Cholame and Cajon Pass: in Abstracts with Programs, Cordilleran Section, Geol. Soc. America, 8, no. 3, p. 409.

Sieh, K., 1976, Pre-historic large earthquakes on the San Andreas fault in the area of the Palmdale uplift: Eos, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 57, no. 12, pp. 899-900.

Sieh, K., 1977, Late Holocene displacement history along the south-central reach of the San Andreas fault: Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 219 p.

Sieh, K., 1978, Pre-historic large earthquakes produced by slip on the San Andreas fault at Pallett Creek, California: J. Geophys. Res., 83, pp. 3907-3939. Reprinted in Wrench Fault Tectonics, American Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Reprint Series No. 28, A.G. Sylvester (ed.), pp. 223-275, 1984.

Sieh, K. E., 1978, Slip along the San Andreas Fault associated with the great 1857 fault at Pallett Creek, California: in Geological Excursions in the Southern California Area, Abbott, P. L., ed., San Diego State University.

Sieh, K., 1978, Slip along the San Andreas fault associated with the great 1857 earthquake: Seismol. Soc. America Bull., 68, pp. 1421-1428.

Sieh, K., 1978, Central California foreshocks of the great 1857 earthquake: Seismol. Soc. America Bull., 68, pp. 1731-1749.

Sieh, K., 1978, Central California foreshocks of the 1857 earthquake: in Earthquake Notes, Eastern Section, Seismol. Soc. America, 49, no. 1, p. 62.

Sieh, K., 1979, Usefulness and limitations of geological studies of earthquake potential: in Abstracts with Programs, Cordilleran Section, Geol. Soc. America, 11, no. 7, p. 517.

Sieh, K. and Jahns, R.H., 1980, Late Holocene slip rate of the San Andreas fault at Wallace Creek, California: in Abstracts with Programs, Cordilleran Section, Geol. Soc. America, 12, no. 3, p. 152.

Sieh, K., 1980, A search for great prehistoric earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault, California: in Proc. Earthquake Prediction Research Symposium, Seismol. Soc. Japan, pp. 175-185.

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Sieh, K., 1981, Is California "Overdue" for a great earthquake?: Engineering and Science, 44, no. 4, pp. 4-8.

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Sieh, K., 1981, Seismic potential of the dormant southern 200 km of the San Andreas fault: Eos, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 62, no. 45, p. 1048.

Sieh, K., 1984, Lateral offsets and revised dates of large earthquakes at Pallett Creek, California: J. Geophys. Res., 89, pp. 7641-7670.

Sieh, K., and Jahns, R.H., 1984, Holocene activity of the San Andreas fault at Wallace Creek, California: Geol. Soc. America Bull., 95, pp. 883-896.

Sieh, K.E., 1986, Advances in geological assessment of earthquake potential in southern California: in Proc. Conference XXXII on Future Directions in Evaluating Earthquake Hazards of Southern California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86- 401, p. 73.

Sieh, K., M. Stuiver, and D. Brillinger, 1988, A more precise Chronology of earthquakes produced by the San Andreas fault in southern California, EOS, Trans. Am. Geophys. U., 69, 1306.

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