Monterey-Related Publications (Monterey Formation, Neogene stratigraphy, diagenesis, and structure)



Manuscripts Abstracts Guidebooks
  • Behl, R.J., and Meike, A., 1990. Cryptocrystalline relationships of silica phases in chert, Particulate Science and Technology, 8, p. 111-122.
  • Behl, R.J., and Smith, B.M.,1992. Silicification of deep sea sediments and the oxygen isotope composition of diagenetic siliceous rocks from the western Pacific, Pigafetta and East Mariana Basins, ODP Leg 129. Proc. O.D.P., Sci. Res., 129, p. 81-117, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).
  • Filippelli, G.M., Delaney, M.L., Garrison, R.E., Omarzai, S.K., and Behl, R.J., 1994. Phosphorus accumulation rates in a Miocene low oxygen basin: the Monterey Formation (Pismo Basin), California. Marine Geology, 116, p. 419-430.
  • Behl, R.J., and Garrison, R.E., 1994. The origin of chert in the Monterey Formation of California (USA). In Iijima, A., Abed, A.M., and Garrison, R.E. (eds.) Siliceous, Phosphatic and Glauconitic Sediments of the
  • Tertiary and Mesozoic: Proceedings of the 29th International Geological Congress, Part C; p. 101-132, VSP, Utrecht.
  • Erlandson, J.M, Kennett, D.J., Behl, R.J., and Hough, I., 1997. The Cico Chert source on San Miguel Island, California. Jour. Calif. And Great Basin Anthropology, 19, n. 2, p. 124-130.
  • Gross, M.R., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Bai, T., Wacker, M.A., Collinsworth, K.B., and Behl, R.J., 1997. Influence of mechanical stratigraphy and kinematics on fault scaling relations. Journal of Structural Geology, 19, no. 2, p.171-183.
  • Behl, R.J., and Ingle, J.C., Jr., 1998. The Sisquoc/Foxen Boundary in the Santa Maria Basin, California: sedimentary response to the new tectonic regime. US Geological Survey Bulletin, 1995, Chapter V, p. V1-V16.
  • Eichhubl, P., and Behl, R.J., 1998. Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation. In P. Eichhubl (Ed.), Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation, Special Publication Pacific Section SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), 83, 5-13.
  • Behl, R.J., 1998. Relationships between silica diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in Monterey Formation cherts, Santa Maria Basin, California. In P. Eichhubl (Ed.), Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation, Special Publication Pacific Section SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), 83, 77-83.
  • Behl, R.J., 1999. Milton Nunn Bramlette (biographical sketch). In Moores, Sloan, and Stout (Eds.), Classic Cordilleran Concepts: A View From California, Special Publication 338, Geological Society of America, p. 274.
  • Behl, R.J., 1999. Since Bramlette (1946): the Miocene Monterey Formation of California Revisited. In Moores, Sloan, and Stout (Eds.), Classic Cordilleran Concepts: A View From California, Special Publication 338, Geological Society of America, p. 301-313.
  • Morita, S. and Behl, R. J., 2004. Distribution and Ordering of Silica Phases in the Monterey Formation of the Palos Verdes Hills, California: Implications for Burial and Uplift History, in Brown, R. (Ed.), Field Guide to the Catalina Schist and the Palos Verdes Penninsula, Los Angeles Basin Geological Society, p. 16-32.
  • Behl, R.J., and Morita, S., 2007, The Monterey Formation of the Palos Verdes Hills, California: stratigraphy and diagenetic implications for burial and uplift history: in Brown, A.R., Shlemon, R.J., and Cooper, J.D., eds., Geology and Paleontology of the Palos Verdes Hills, California: A 60th Anniversary Revisit to Commemorate 1946 Publication of U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 207: Pacific Section SEPM book 103, p. 51-72.
  • Behl, R.J., 2011, Chert spheroids of the Monterey Formation, California (USA): early diagenetic structures of bedded siliceous deposits, Sedimentology. published online: 28 Jun 2010; v. 58, p. 325–351.
  •  Föllmi, K.B., Thomet, P., Lévy, S., De Kaenel, E., Spangenberg, J.E. Adatte, T., Behl, R.J., Garrison, R.E., 2017. The Impact of Hydrodynamics, Authigenesis, and Basin Morphology On Sediment Accumulation In An Upwelling Environment: The Miocene Monterey Formation At Shell Beach and Mussel Rock (Pismo and Santa Maria Basins, Central California, U.S.A.), Journal of Sedimentary Research, 87 (9) 986-1018; DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2017.57
  •  Hancock, L.G., Hardisty, D.S., Behl, R.J., Lyons, T.W., 2019. A multi-basin redox reconstruction for the Miocene Monterey Formation, California, USA, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, January 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.01.031
  •  Hill PS, Behl RJ. 2019. Milankovitch stratigraphy in the Miocene–Pliocene Monterey marine succession offshore central California. In Marsaglia KM, Schwalbach JR, Behl RJ (Editors). From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution, Special Publication 110: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology). https://doi.org/10.2110/sepmsp.110.16
  •  Marsaglia KM, Behl RJ, and Schwalbach JR, 2019. Introduction—From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution. In Marsaglia KM, Schwalbach JR, Behl RJ (Editors). From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution, Special Publication 110: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology). https://doi.org/10.2110/sepmsp.110.16
  • Behl, R.J., and Kamerling, M.J.; 2020. Petroleum migration in an active petroleum system, Santa Barbara Basin, California, USA, in Behl, R.J., Ed., Outcrops that change the way we practice petroleum geology: Pacific Section AAPG Book No. 81, p. 1-30. ISBN # 1-58955-007-2
  •  Davis, T.L., Behl, R.J., O’Sullivan, K.M., Raskin, S., and Bryne, S., 2020. Santa Cruz Island field trip: Geology, history, and research opportunities, in Heermance, R.V., and Schwartz, J.J., eds., From the Islands to the Mountains: A 2020 View of Geologic Excursions in Southern California: Geological Society of America Field Guide 59, p. 115–163, https://doi.org/10.1130/2020.0059(04)
  •   Giannetta, L.G., and Behl, R.J., 2022. Chemostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic framework of the Eocene Kreyenhagen Formation: Kettleman area, northern San Joaquin Basin, CA. In Aiello, Barron and Ravello (Eds.), Understanding the Monterey Formation and Similar Biosiliceous Units across Space and Time, Geological Society America Spec. Publ 556, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/2022.2556(12
  •  Wirtz, Y., and Behl, R.J., 2022. Compositional and Diagenetic Control of Bed- to Formational-Scale Deformation in Siliceous Sedimentary Rocks, Santa Maria Basin, California,. In Aiello, Barron and Ravello (Eds.), Understanding the Monterey Formation and Similar Biosiliceous Units across Space and Time, Geological Society America Spec. Publ 556, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/2022.2556(03)
  • Lau, K.V., Hancock, L.G., Severmanne, S. Kuzminove, A., Colef, D.B., Behl, R.J., Planavsky, N.J., Lyon, T.W., 2022. Variable local basin hydrography and productivity control the uranium isotope paleoredox proxy in anoxic black shales, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 317, 15 January 2022, Pages 433-456. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.10.011. 


Abstracts
  • Behl, R.J., and Meike, A., 1988. Cryptocrystalline Relationships of Silica Phases in Chert, Proceedings of the Fine Particle Society.
  • Behl, R.J., 1990. Chertification in the Monterey Formation of California: An extended process of diagenesis and deformation, AAPG Bull., 74, n. 5, p. 608.
  • Behl, R.J., Smith, B.M., and Garrison, R.E., 1991. Field Classification and Oxygen Isotope Composition of Quartz Cherts from the Monterey Formation, Santa Maria Basin, California. AAPG Bull., 75, n. 2, p. 356.
  • Behl, R.J., 1991. Chert Spheroids: Enigmatic Structures Resulting from the Interplay of Diagenesis and Deformation., GSA Abstracts with Programs, 23, n. 5, p. 410.
  • Behl, R.J., and Smith, B.M., 1992. The silicification of pelagic sediments of the western Pacific; the key roles of composition, permeability and time, GSA Abstracts with Programs, 24, n. 5, p. 6-7
  • Behl, R.J., and Garrison, R.E., 1992. The Origin of Chert in the Monterey Formation of California (USA), Abstracts 29th International Geological Congress, v. 1, p. 99.
  • Behl, R.J., and Ingle, J.C., Jr., 1992. Sedimentary Response to the 3.9-3.4 Ma Change in North American-Pacific Plate Motion; Santa Maria Basin, Central California., EOS, 73, n. 43 supplement, p. 590.
  • Behl, R.J., and Stock, J., 1994. The Interplay of Diagenesis and Deformation in Monterey Formation Cherts, GSA Abstracts with Program, 26, n. 5, p. 468.
  • Eichhubl, P., and Behl, R.J., 1998, Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Monterey Formation of coastal California, AAPG Bull., 82, no. 5A, p.846.
  • Behl, R.J., 1999. Lithostratigraphic Expression of Milankovitch Cyclicity along the California Margin. Program and Abstracts, Cordilleran Section Meeting: Geological Society of America, p. A-37.
  • Behl, R.J., and Aiello, I.W, 1999. Orbital- and Sub-Orbital-Scale Variability Beneath the Neogene-Quaternary California Current System, EOS, 80, n. 46 supplement, p. F589.
  • Aiello, I.W, Behl, R.J., and Garrison, R.E., 2000. Possible Milankovitch cyclicity recorded in rythmically bedded sections of Neogene biosiliceous sediments (Monterey and Pismo Formations), California, AAPG/SEPM/SEG Convention Program and Abstracts Volume, 9, p.A4.
  • Behl, R.J., 2000. Neogene evolution and stratigraphy of the Santa Maria basin, California, Pacific Section AAPG/SEPM Annual Convention Program and Abstracts Volume, p.A5.
  • Behl, R.J., 2001. Quantifying sedimentary fabric as a proxy for past water-mass and benthic ecosystem variability, Western Pacific Margins (WEPAMA) Working Group meeting, IMAGES (International Marine Past Global Changes Program), Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Deason, C.T., and Behl, Secondary processes in the formation of ribbon bedded and nodular chert in the Monterey Formation at Mussel Rock, Santa Barbara County, California, Pacific Section AAPG, 2003.
  • Hill, P.S., and Behl, Use of orbital cyclicity as a high-resolution dating and correlation tool in the Monterey and Sisquoc Formations of the Santa Maria Basin and offshore equivalents, Central California Margin, Pacific Section AAPG, 2003.
  • Behl, R.J., Herzig, C.P., Singley, S.P., Deason, C.T., Hill, P.S., and Katsuk, O.K., 2003. The Monterey Formation of Coastal Orange County, California: Preliminary Sedimentologic and Diagenetic Findings, AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90014©2003 AAPG Pacific Section/SPE Western Regional Joint Meeting, Long Beach, California.
  • Hill, P.S., and Behl, R.J., 2003. Use of Milankovitch Cyclicity as a High-Resolution Dating and Correlation Tool to Understand the Stratigraphic Evolution of the Late Neogene Central California Margin, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP21C-1188.
  • David, B.T., Singley, S.P., Behl, R.J., Herzig, C., and Repka, J., 2005. Silica Phases and Diagenetic Trends Found within the Monterey Formation of Coastal Orange County, California, Reflect the Tectonic and Burial History. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 4, p. 46.
  • Saenz, J.M., Fischer, P.J., Behl, R.J., Denison, F.E., O’Neil, T.J., and Brickey, M.R.., 2005. A Preliminary Tectonic and Sedimentation Model of the Santa Maria Basin, Offshore California, GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 37, No. 4.
  • Saenz, J.M., Fischer, P.J., Behl, R.J., Denison, F.E., O’Neil, T.J., and Piper, K., 2005. Hydrocarbon Migration of Monterey Formation Oil of the Santa Maria Basin, Offshore California, AAPG Conference, 2005.
  • Hill, P.S., and Behl, R.J., 2005, Milankovitch Cyclicity: A Tool for Determining the Stratigraphic Evolution of the Late Neogene Offshore Central California Margin, EOS Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP11B-1460.
  • Day, P.P., Behl, R.J., Kelty, T.K., and Ribeiro, A.E., 2006, Petrology of bedded chert along the Hustain Fault, Hangay Mountains, Central Mongolia in Tomurhuu, D., Natal’in, B., Ariunchimeg, Y., Khishigsuren, S., and Erdenesaikhan, G., eds., Second International Workshop and Field Excursions for IGCP Project-480. Structural and Tectonic correlation across the Central Asian Orogenic Collage: Implications for Continental Growth and Intracontinental Deformation. Abstracts and Excursion Guidebook: Ulaanbaatar, Institute of Geology and Mineral Recourses, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, p. 75-76.
  • Behl, R.J., and Morita, S., 2008. The Monterey Formation of the Palos Verdes Hills, California: Stratigraphy, and Diagenetic Implications for Burial & Uplift History, Pacific Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Bakersfield, CA.
  • Behl, R.J., 2008. Mysteries of the Monterey Formation: Unanswered Questions and Future Research Directions, Pacific Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Bakersfield, CA.
  • Behl; R.J.; Ta L.; Williams, D.; Werner, A.; Bernardino, M.; Peterson, R.; McCormick, C.; Escobedo, D.; Nagy, B.; 2009. Geomorphic Expression of a Miocene Dike Complex, San Joaquin Hills, California, USA, Eos Trans. AGU, 90(48), Jt. Assem.. Suppl., Abstract EP41B-0601
  • Marshall, C.J.; Sorlien, C.C.; Nicholson, C.; Behl, R.J.; Kennett, J.P.; 2009. Sedimentation in an Active Fold and Thrust Belt, Santa Barbara Basin, CA: Spatial and Temporal Evolution from 1.0 Ma to Present. Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Jt. Assem.. Suppl., Abstract T21D-1848.
  • Behl, R.J., Ta, L., Williams, D., Werner, A., Bernardino, M., Peterson, R., McCormick, C., and Nagy, B., 2010, Geomorphic Expression of a Miocene Dike Complex, San Joaquin Hills, California, USA, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 42, No. 4, p. 103.
Guidebooks
  • Eichhubl, P., and Behl, R.J., 1998. Field guide to ‘Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation’: Ventura-Santa Barbara-Jalama Beach-Grefco Quarry/Lompoc. In P. Eichhubl (Ed.), Diagenesis, deformation, and fluid flow in the Miocene Monterey Formation, Special Publication Pacific Section SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), 83, 85-98.
  • Behl, R.J., and Ramirez, P.C., 2000. Field Guide to the Geology of the Neogene Santa Maria Basin: From Rift to Uplift. In R.J. Behl (Ed) Field Guide to the Geology of the Neogene Santa Maria Basin: From Rift to Uplift, Special Publication Pacific Section SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), 86, 1-31.
  • Legg, M.R., and Behl, R.J., 2008, Field Guide: Neogene Extensional Tectonics and Sedimentation, Coastal Southern California, LA Basin Geol. Soc., 38p.
  • Fritsche, A.E. and Behl, R.J., (Eds.), 2008, Geology of Orange County, California, and the Irvine Ranch National Natural Landmark, Pacific Section SEPM, Volume 106. 184 p.
  • Behl, R.J., 2010, Guidebook to the Monterey Formation of the Los Angeles Basin, Cordilleran Section Geological Society of America and Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, 21 p.
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