... which discuss its location or significance are mentioned herein. The relationship between the Franciscan complex and Knoxville shales in the California Coast Ranges ( Fig. 1 ) has been the subject of debate among California geologists for many decades, the problem being discussed at length...

... the radiolaria Hinde states: Franciscan and Knoxville have a wide distribution and attain a great thickness in the California Coast Ranges north of Santa Barbara yet there is little agreement as to their age limits and relation to each other, and to other Mesozoic units in the state. Briefly, the problem...

..., 1896, not 1895 as shown on cover) . Taliaferro , N. L. , 1942 , “ Geologic History and Correlation of the Jurassic of Southwestern Oregon and California ,” Bull. Geol. Soc. America , Vol. 53 , No. 1 , pp. 71 – 112 . Taliaferro , N. L. , 1943 , “ Franciscan-Knoxville Problem...

.... , 1943 , “ Franciscan-Knoxville Problem ,” Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. , Vol. 27 , No. 2 , pp. 109 – 219 , Pls. 1–7, Figs. 1–7 in text. The writer called the attention of F. M. Anderson to this specimen, and he pronounced it a new species of Acanthoceras and believed it to occur...

...), Bull. Geol. Soc. America , Vol. 53 (1942), p. 1838. 5 N. L. Taliaferro, “Geologic History and Structure of the Central Coast Range of California,” California Div. Mines Geol. Bull. 118 (1940), pp. 119–63. N. L. Taliaferro, “Franciscan-Knoxville Problem,” Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol...

... to be distinct from the more typically Franciscan graywacke (Type I). This definition presents a solution to the Franciscan-Knoxville problem. In the Coast Ranges, rocks similar lithologically and faunally to the Knoxville beds on the west side of Sacramento Valley are common. Outcrops of such rocks too...

... a, A contribution to the geology of the Coast Ranges : Am. Geol. , v. 15 , p. 342 – 356 . Lawson , A. C. , 1895 b, Sketch of the geology of San Francisco Peninsula : U. S. Geol. Survey 15th Ann. Rept. ( 1893 – 1894 ), p. 405 – 476 . Taliaferro , N. L. , 1943 , Franciscan-Knoxville...

.... L. , 1943b , “ Franciscan-Knoxville Problem ,” Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. , Vol. 27 , No. 2 , pp. 109 – 219 . Taliaferro , N. L. , 1951 , “ Geology of the San Francisco Bay Counties,” in “Bay Area Guidebook ,” California Div. Mines Bull. 154 , pp. 117 – 50 . Thalmann...

... – 55 . Taliaferro , N. L. , 1942 , “ Geologic History and Correlation of the Jurassic of Southwestern Oregon and California ,” Bull. Geol. Soc. America , Vol. 53 , No. 1 , pp. 71 – 112 . Taliaferro , N. L. , 1943 , “ Franciscan-Knoxville Problem. ” Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol...

... localities in the Coast Ranges rocks of the group are overlain conformably by the fossiliferous Knoxville formation of Late Jurassic age, micropaleontologists have reported the presence of several species of Foraminifera in limestone of the Franciscan of the San Francisco Peninsula area that are not older...

... . Taliaferro , N. L. , “ Geologic History and Correlation of the Jurassic of Southwestern Oregon and California ,” Bull. Geol. Soc. America , Vol. 53 , No. 1 (January, 1942 ), pp. 71 – 112 . Taliaferro , N. L. , “ Franciscan-Knoxville Problem ,” Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol ., Vol. 27...

.... 23 P. Reiche, “Geology of the Lucia Quadrangle,” Univ. California Pub., Bull. Dept. Geol. Sci. , Vol. 24, No. 7 (1937), pp. 137–44. 10 N. L. Taliaferro, “The Franciscan-Knoxville Problem,” Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. , Vol. 27, No. 2 (February, 1943), pp. 109–219. After...

...). 10 E. F. Davis, “The Radiolarian Cherts of the Franciscan Group,” Univ. California Bull. Dept. Geol ., Vol. 11 (1918), pp. 235-408. 11 Nicholas L. Taliaferro, “Franciscan-Knoxville Problem,” Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol ., Vol. 27, No. 2 (February, 1943), pp. 109-219. ...

.... L. 1943. "Franciscan Knoxville Problem," Bull. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., 27: 109-219. Tocher, D. 1956. "Earthquakes off the North Pacific Coast of the United States," Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 46: 165-173. U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1952. Abstracts of Earthquake Reports for the Pacific Coast...

..., Formation, Group, assemblage, melange) since geologists began working with these rocks more than 100 years ago. Thus, the nature of the Franciscan has been closely bound to a secondary problem—what should it be called? Even today there is no generally accepted formal name, and the recent literature contains...

... importance? When the Cretaceous was first found it was thought to be Tertiary; when lower Tertiary beds were first studied they were taken to be Cretaceous; when the Jurassic Knoxville and Franciscan sediments were first extensively examined they were considered to be metamorphosed Cretaceous...

... The post-Franciscan stage began with the deposition of the so-called Knoxville beds, which, like the better known Knoxville farther north, may be Portlandian (Upper Jurassic) at the base. 4 The stage also includes Lower and Upper Cretaceous and Cenozoic time. The subject of Lower Mesozoic...

... and California : Geol. Soc. America Bull. , v. 53 , p. 71 - 112 . Taliaferro , N. L. , 1943 a, Franciscan-Knoxville problem : Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull. , v. 27 , p. 109 - 219 . Taliaferro , N. L. , 1943 b, Geologic history and structure of the central Coast Range...

...-west line followed by the Santa Ynez Mountains. In view of the fact that this series nowhere occurs in areas of granitic basement, and that the only parts of the Southern Franciscan Basin that can be examined are a few strongly uplifted areas, it is possible that the Knoxville Sea spread over all...

...://doi.org/10.1130/B26399.1 Taliaferro , N.L. 1943 . Franciscan–Knoxville problem . AAPG Bulletin , 27 , 109 – 219 . Talling , P.J. , Malgesini , G. and Felletti , F. 2013 . Can liquefied debris flows deposit clean sand over large areas of sea floor? Field evidence from...