High-Resolution Seismic Surveying for Neogene-Quaternary Sequence Stratigraphy, Northern California Continental Shelf and Upper Slope, in Support of STRATAFORM.

摘要

This project is a component of ONR's STRATAFORM program, the goal of which is to link short-term (i.e., acting over hours to weeks) biological and physical processes affecting sedimentation ("event stratigraphy") to the sequence stratigraphy and facies architecture of the preserved record. STRATAFORM consists of three interrelated projects whose goals are to study: 1) shelf sediment dynamics and the development of lithostratigraphy, 2) slope geological processes and resultant geomorphology, and 3) stratigraphic sequences resulting from shelf and slope sedimentation. High-resolution multichannel seismic (MCS) data collection, described below, is part of the third project, but the data also form part of a multi-faceted approach that ties all three projects together.