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Contact between map units; generally approximately
located or inferred; dotted where concealed.
Fault; approximately located or inferred, querried where
location is uncertain; dotted where concealed.
Landslide; arrow indicates principal direction of
movement, querried where existence is questionable
(some geologic features are drawn within questionable
landslides); hachured where headscarp is mappable.
Strike and dip of bedding.
Axis of anticline; dotted where concealed; arrow
indicates direction of plunge.
Axis of syncline; dotted where concealed.
Holocene
Pleistocene
Pliocene
Miocene
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QUATERNARY
TERTIARY
CENOZOIC
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GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE
VENTURA 7.5' QUADRANGLE
VENTURA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: A DIGITAL DATABASE
VERSION 1.0
By
Siang S. Tan
1
, Terry A. Jones
1
and Kevin B. Clahan
2
Digital Database by:
Kelly Corriea3
2003
REFERENCES
Artifical fill material; may be engineered and/or non-engineered.
Active wash deposits within major river channels; composed of
unconsolidated sand, gravel and silt.
Active beach deposits; consist mainly of loose sand, fine to coarse-
grained.
Active coastal estuarine deposits; composed of saturated silty clay
with some fine sand.
Latest Holocene alluvial fan deposits, deposited by streams
emanating from mountain canyons onto alluvial calley floors; deposits
originate as debris flows, hyperconcentrated mudflows, or braided
stream flows; composed of moderately to poorly sorted, and
moderately to poorly bedded sandy clay with some gravel.
Historically active wash deposits adjacent to active channel;
composed of unconsolidated sand, silt and gravel.
Undivided Holocene alluvial and colluvial deposits on the floors of
valleys, includes active stream deposits in hill slope areas; composed
of unconsolidated sandy clay with some gravel.
Holocene stream terrace deposits, deposited in point bar and
overbank settings; composed of unconsolidated clayey sand and
sandy clay with gravel.
Holocene alluvial fan deposits; deposited by streams emanating from
mountain canyons onto alluvial valley floors; deposits originate as
debris flows, hyperconcentrated mudflows, or braided stream flows;
composed of moderately to poorly sorted, and moderately to poorly
bedded, sandy clay with some gravel.
Holocene to Pleistocene landslide deposits, include numerous active
landslides; composed of weathered broken up rocks; extremely
susceptible to renewed landsliding.
Holocene paralic deposits of the Sea Cliff marine terrace 1800 to
5800 years old (Lajoie, and others, 1982); composed of semi-
consolidated sandy clay with some gravel.
Undivided Pleistocene stream terrace deposits, consists of
consolidated clay sand, gravel, cobble and some boulder size
material.
Pleistocene undivided alluvial deposits, consist of consolidated slit,
sand, clay, and gravel.
Pleistocene Saugus Formation; weakly consolidated alluvial
deposits composed of sandstone and siliceous shale gravel and
cobbles in sandy matrix; highly susceptible to landsliding.
Pleistocene Las Posas Sandstone; weakly indurated sand, with
some gravelly sand units; highly susceptible to landsliding.
Pleistocene Santa Barbara claystone; locally contains Monterey
Formation shale fragments; highly susceptible to landsliding.
Pliocene undivided Pico Formation, composed of claystone,
siltstone, sandstone, locally pebbly; generally susceptible to
landsliding.
Pliocene Pico Formation portion containing sandstone; generally
resistant to landsliding.
Pliocene-Miocene Sisquoc Shale; silty shale and claystone;
generally susceptible to landsliding
Miocene Monterey Formation; consists of siliceous and
diatomaceous shale and some sandstone and limestone; generally
susceptible to landsliding.
Miocene Rincon Shale; composed of shale and siltstone; generally
susceptible to landsliding.
Early Miocene Vaqueros Sandstone; consists of sandstone, locally
calcareous.
Oligocene Sespe Formation, composed of sandstone; locally
pebbly, with some siltstone and claystone.
MAP SYMBOLS
The bedrock geology of the present map is largely modified from Dibblee
(1988), Sarna-Wojcicki, and others (1976) and Yerkes, and others (1987).
Dibblee, T.W., Jr., 1988, Geologic map of the Ventura and Pitas Point
quadrangles, Ventura County, California: Dibblee Geological Foundation
Map no. DF-2, scale 1:24,000.
Edwards, R.D., Rabey, D.F., and Kover, R.W., 1970, Soil survey of the Ventura
area, California: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation
Services, 151 p., scale 1:24,000.
Grigsby, F.B., 1988, Structural development of the Ventura Avenue anticlinal
trend at the San Miguilito and Rincon oil fields, Ventura County, California:
Coast Geological Society, Field Guide No. 64, p. 111-124.
Hitchcock, C.S., Lindvall, S.C., Helms, J.D., Randolph, C.E., Weaver, K.D., and
Lettis, W.R., 2000, Liquefaction hazard mapping, Ventura County,
California: Final Technical Report, U.S. Geological Survey, Award 99-HQ-
GR-0117, 21 p,4 plates.
Hoirup, D.F., Jr. and Jones, T.A., 2002, Earthquake-induced landslide zones in
the Ventura 7.5-minute quadrangle, Ventura County, California: California
Geological Survey, Seismic Hazard Zone Report 067, Section 2, 24 p.
Huftile, G.J., Lindvall, S.C., Anderson, L., Gurrola, L.D., and Tucker, M.A., 1997,
Paleoseismic investigation of the Red Mountain Fault: Analysis and
trenching of the Punta Gorda terrace: Southern California Earthquake
Center, research 97, 3. p.
Lajoie, K.R., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M. and Yerkes, R.F., 1982, Quaternary
chronology and rates of crustal deformation in the Ventura area, California:
Geological Society of America, Guidebook Neotectonics of the Ventura
Basin, field trip number 3, p. 43-51.
McCoy, G., and Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., 1978, Preliminary map showing surficial
materials of the Ventura-Oxnard plain area, California: U.S. Geological
Survey Open-File Report 78-1065, scale 1:125,000.
O'Tousa, J., 1995, La Conchita landslide, Ventura County, California:
Association of Engineering Geologists, v. 38, no. 4, p. 22-24.
Rockwell, T.K., Keller, E.A., Clark, M.N., and Johnson, D.L., 1984, Chronology
and rates of faulting of Ventura River terraces, California: Geological
Society of America Bulletin, v. 95, p. 1466-1474.
Rockwell, T.K., Johnson, D.L., Keller, E.A., and Dembroff, G.R., 1985, A late
Pleistocene-Holocene soil chronosequence in the central Ventura Basin,
southern California, U.S.A., in Richards, K., Arnett, R., and Ellis, S., eds.,
Geomorphology and soils: London, England, George Allen and Unwin, p.
309-327.
Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Williams, K.M., and Yerkes, R.F., 1976, Geology of the
Ventura fault, Ventura County, California: U.S. Geological Survey
Miscellaneous Field Studies, Map MF-781, 3 sheets, scale 1:6,000.
Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Lajoie, K.R. and Yerkes, R.F., 1987, Recurrent Holocene
displacement on the Javon Canyon Fault - a comparison of fault -
movement history with calculated average recurrence intervals: U.S.
Geological Survey Professional Paper 1339, p. 125-135.
Smith, T.C., 1976, Fault evaluation report for the Ventura Fault: California
Division of Mines and Geology, FER-13, 13 p.; Supplement No. 1, 1977;
Supplement No. 2, 1978 (unpublished).
Smith, T.C., 1977, Fault evaluation report for the Red Mountain Fault:
California Division of Mines and Geology, FER 28, 14 p., (unpublished).
Yerkes, R.F., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., and Lajoei, K.R., 1987, Geology and
quaternary deformation of the ventura area: U.S. Geological Survey
Professional Paper 1339, p.169-178, plate 11.1, scale 1:24,000.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA - GRAY DAVIS, GOVERNOR
THE RESOURCES AGENCY - MARY NICHOLS, SECRETARY FOR RESOURCES
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION - DARRYL YOUNG, DIRECTOR
CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
MICHAEL S. REICHLE, ACTING STATE GEOLOGIST
Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey,
Southern California Areal Mapping Project
CORRELATION OF MAP UNITS
EXPLANATION OF MAP UNITS
This geologic map was funded in part by the
USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping
Program, Statemap Award no.02HQAG0018
Topographic base from the U.S.
Geological Survey. Polyconic Projection.
1. California Geological Survey, Los Angeles, CA
2. California Geological Survey, San Francisco, CA
3. U.S. Geological Survey, Riverside, CA
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