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Subsurface stratigraphy of the eastern Hollister Valley, California

Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 1461
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Abstract

In September 1977, four cores were recovered by shallow auger drilling from Hollister Valley, California, near the Calaveras fault. The wells were drilled to search for evidence that Hollister Valley may have been occupied by a large lake during the late Pleistocene or Holocene. This small valley, near Monterey Bay, may have been dammed by a large landslide on the San Andreas fault (Jenkins, 1973; Herd and Helley, 1977). The cores sampled the first 38 m of sediment below the valley floor, but no lacustrine deposits were found at these sites; a very detailed record to Holocene alluviation in a tectonically subsiding basin. 

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Subsurface stratigraphy of the eastern Hollister Valley, California
Series title Miscellaneous Field Studies Map
Series number 1461
DOI 10.3133/mf1461
Year Published 1987
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Description 3 plates: 41.99 x 35.50 inches or smaller
Country United States
State California
Other Geospatial Hollister Valley
Scale 0
Online Only (Y/N) N
Additional Online Files (Y/N) N
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