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Blanca fan is a submarine fan composed of Miocene volcaniclastic strata. Parts of the fan system are exposed on Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands, and possibly correlative strata crop out on San Miguel and Santa Catalina Islands.
The Blanca fan and underlying breccia reflect regional transcurrent faulting in the California Continental Borderland and development of a system of rapidly subsiding basins and uplifted linear ridges during early and middle Miocene time. Erosion of uplifted crystalline basement rocks followed by the onset of silicic volcanism created linear sediment sources for the alluvial and submarine fans, respectively.
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McLean, H., Howell, D.G. Miocene Blanca Fan, Northern Channel Islands, California: Small fans reflecting tectonism and volcanism. Geo-Marine Letters 3, 161–166 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02462462
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