Table of Contents - SPE234: Late Cenozoic Paleohydrogeology of the Western San Joaquin Valley, California;
Relation to Structural Movements in the Central Coast Ranges
Abstract
Introduction
Isotope Terminology
Geologic Framework of the San Joaquin Valley
Late Tertiary and Quaternary Geologic History
Principal Ground-water Types
Sampling and Analysis
Results of Analyses
Chemical and Isotopic Character of Ground Waters
Climatic Conditions and Meteorology
Modern regime
Meteorological model
Mid-Pleistocene model
Mixing Models
Pleistocene Hydrogeology of the central West Side
Implications of mixing models
Relation of relict waters to Corcoran Clay Member.
Climate of the San Joaquin Valley during glaciation of the Sierra Nevada
Pleistocene paleoclimatology and paleometeorology
Mid-Pleistocene paleometeorology
Conclusions
References Cited