Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve

16 Feb, 08 AM - 22 Mar, 02 AM

Alluvial fans and their coeval last interglacial(?) marine terrace at Rancho Marino become highly dissected and fragentary landforms in a southeasterly direction along the coast. This project will involve field charcaterization of these landforms through geomorphic/geologic mapping, sedimentary logging and surveying. Dating of the marine terrace will be achieved through optically stimulated luminescence dating, enabling the marine terrace to act as a geomorphic timeline. This in turn will enable the relative roles of climate-eustatic and tectonic-eustatic base-level lowering (and thus spatial and temporal patterns of landform incision) to be assessed. The OSL dating requires small samples of sand to obtained from the marine terrace cliff sections. I envisage taking only 2-3 samples. Such sampling causes minimal impact / erosion to the cliff.

Visit #8197 @Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve

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Under Project # 5826 | Research

Alluvial Fan & Marine Terrace Research

research_scientist - University of Plymouth

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Martin Stokes Feb 16 - Mar 22, 2006 (35 days)
Martin Stokes Feb 16 - Mar 22, 2006 (35 days)

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