Fluvial system response to late Pleistocene-Holocene sea-level change on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California
Schumann RR, Pigati JS, McGeehin JP. 2016. Fluvial system response to late Pleistocene-Holocene sea-level change on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California. Geomorphology. 268
Santa Rosa Island (SRI) is one of four east-west aligned islands forming the northern Channel Islands chain, and one of the five islands in Channel Islands National Park, California, USA. The island setting provides an unparalleled environment in which to record the response of fluvial systems to major changes of sea level. Many of the larger streams on the island occupy broad valleys that have been filled with alluvium and later incised to formsteep- to vertical-walled arroyos, leaving a relict floodplain as much as 12–14mabove the present channel.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Schumann, R; Pigati, Jeffrey; McGeehin, John
- Units
- CHIS
- Keywords
- Alluvial history, Base level, California, Channel Islands, Sea level