Confusion attending correlation of the Monterey, early upper Miocene of California, is referable in part to three prevailing beliefs. These are (1) that the formation is everywhere fine grained, (2) that it nowhere yields useful macrofossils, and (3) that its epeiric seas did not receive material from eastern lands which contributed to underlying and overlying formations.
Figure 1 is a sketch showing the formation as laid down. The shale facies is marine. The part sandy facies grades landward to include subaerial deposits, the strandward half of the clastic belt tending to be partly nonmarine. Considering its subaerial portions, the computed...
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