Quaternary sea-level history and the origin of the northernmost coastal aeolianites in the Americas: Channel Islands National Park, California, USA

• Main Authors: Muhs, Daniel R, Pigati, Jeffrey S., Schumann, R. Randall, Skipp, Gary L., Porat, Naomi, DeVogel, Stephen B.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2017
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Geology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Other Earth Sciences; Other Environmental Sciences; Pacific; St. Helena; San Miguel; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/1090; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/usgsstaffpub/article/2100/viewcontent/Muhs_PPP_2018_Quaternary_sea_level_history.pdf

Along most of the Pacific Coast of North America, sand dunes are dominantly silicate-rich. On the California Channel Islands, however, dunes are carbonate-rich, due to high productivity offshore and a lack of dilution by silicate minerals. Older sands on the Channel Islands contain enough carbonate...