GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF PALOS - Pubs Warehouse

Abstract ________________________________________
Introduction _______________________________________
Scope of report. ___-_-________-___---_--________
Field work__ _ _._____________________^_. ________
Acknowledgments. ___--_-____-___----_-________
Early history of region. _-_____--_-_-_-_-_.______
Name used for the hills.-. _ ___-_-_.---_____-_____
Bibliography. . _________________________________
Geography __________-__--____-_____---_-___-____
Geographic relations.----.-..----------.--------
Surface features. ________-_-_-_---_-_---___-_-__
Land use.__. ___._--_--__-_---- -----_ --------
Stratigraphy and paleontology. _ __--___-------_-____
Outline of stratigraphy. _________________________
Jurassic (?) system.... ._____...__..__-______.-__
Franciscan (?) schist. ___.._-___---_---._____
Distribution and lithology ___---.--______
Age__... ._...----.. -..._--------.----.
Miocene series _ ____________-_---------_-_.____
Monterey shale.... ______-_-__ _______.______
General relations. --__-___------_-_-__._
Lithology. _.__.____. _ _». __-_------______
Fossils ___ _________---'_ __---_-_-__.___
Altamira shale member.. _ _______________
Lower part, including Portuguese tuff
bed... ___.-._---.--------.-----.
Stratigraphy and lithology- ______
Portuguese Canyon area_____
Miraleste area.... __________
Bluff Cove area ___ _______
Fossils ___ -.____- ___ _ . _
Foraminifera____ ___________
Middle part, including Miraleste tuff
bed. ___--____-_--__.....----_.__
Stratigraphy and lithology _ ______
Bluff Cove- Malaga Cove area.
Bluff Cove-Lunada Bay area.
Lunada Bay-Point Vicente
Altamira Canyon-Portuguese
Canyon area. ----__-___-_
Agua Negra Canyon area. . _ _
George F Canyon-Miraleste
Canyon area. ____________
Miraleste-San Pedro Hill area.
San Pedro area. ____________
Point Fermin area. _________
Whites Point area_ _________
Fossils. _..._-- _ ________ _ ___
Foraminifera. ______________
Upper parti _ _____________________
Stratigraphy and lithology- ______
Malaga Cove area. _________
Lunada Bay area. __________
Crest of hills...---..--- __
North slope of hills. ___--___
San Pedro area. ____________
Point Fermin-Whites Point
Foraminifera. _____-____-_-_
Mollusks -__._- _____--_-__.
Valmonte diatomite member. ____________
Stratigraphy and lithology- _ _________
Malaga Cove area. __.__.____-_.
Synclinal areas in western part of
hills... -__-----------_:_-----
North slope. of hills. ____________
San Pedro area. ________________
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Stratigraphy and paleontology Continued.
Miocene series: Continued. .
Monterey shale Continued.
Valmonte diatomite member Continued.
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Fossils. .____...__.._.___..___.
Foraminifera- __________________'
Mollusks. _____________________
Vertebrates- ___________________
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Malaga mudstone member.i__l__________ 37
Stratigraphy an d lithology ___________
Malaga Cove area. _____________
North slope of hills_.____-.._._._
San Pedro area..________'_______
Fossils...__--------_-_------_-_.
Foraminifera_ __________________
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Environment suggested by fossils._______.
Age and correlation.___'__._______-______
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Pliocene series_________--__---_______-_---___- 40
Repetto siltstone.__________________________
General features._______________________
Stratigraphy and lithology-______^-_____.
Malaga Cove__.____________________
Ravine west of Hawthorne Avenue
near Walteria____________________
Lomita quarry-Palos Verdes Drive
East area._______________________
Fossils___--_--_-_-_-____---;_-_ -__-
Foraminifera- _____________________ _
Mollusks. _________________________
Environment suggested by fossils.________
Age and correlation. ____________________
Pleistocene series.______________________________
Principal subdivisions.______________________
Lomita marl, Timms Point silt, and San Pedro
sand ____________________________________
General features._______________________
Stratigraphic relations_____________
General character and distribution....
Type region of Stratigraphic units.._._
Stratigraphy and lithology___--____-_____
Deadman Island..._________________
Timms Point.._-_-______.___.___.__
Central San Pedro._________________
Northwestern San Pedro-_-_-__-_____
Eastern part of Gaffey anticline. _____
Hilltop quarry and nearby localities. __
Lomita quarry and nearby localities_
Western part of Gaffey anticline. _____
North border of hills between Bent
Spring Canyon and Hawthorne
Avenue...------____.--__________
North border of hills between Hawthorne
Avenue and Malaga Cove___
Malaga Cove ___________________
Marine terrace deposits __________________
General features._______________________
Marine terrace deposits older than Palos
Verdes sand______________-_______.__.
Stratigraphy and lithology_---___-___
Twelfth terrace..:________-___._.
' Ninth terrace__.___________'__i_
Eighth terrace..................
Sixth terrace.__________________
Fifth terrace.__________________
Fourth terrace_____-----____._
Third terrace_._.___________..
' . Second terrace________________
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