@article {685,
	title = {Across-shelf sediment transport since the Last Glacial Maximum, southern California margin},
	journal = {Geology},
	volume = {32},
	year = {2004},
	note = {808fbTimes Cited:19Cited References Count:36},
	month = {Apr},
	pages = {345-348},
	abstract = {Correlation of continental shelf-slope stratigraphy in Santa Monica Bay (southern California) with Ocean Drilling Program records for nearby slope-basin sites has illuminated the timing and scale of terrigenous sediment dispersal on margin since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Marine flooding surfaces preserved in a transgressive sequence on the Santa Monica Shelf provide a key link between base-level elevation and sediment transport across shelf. Sediment-accumulation rates at slope-basin sites were maximal ca. 15-10 ka, well after the LGM, decreased during the 12-9 ka transition from fluvial-estuarine to fully marine conditions on the shelf, and decelerated throughout the Holocene to 30\%-75\% of their values at the LGM. The deceleration is interpreted to manifest a landward shift in the margin depocenter with the onset of transgressive sedimentation beginning when sea level surmounted the shelf edge ca. 13 ka, as predicted by sequence-stratigraphic models. However, the records make clear that factors other than base level modulated slope-basin accumulation rates during the deglaciation.},
	issn = {0091-7613},
	doi = {10.1130/G20182.1},
	author = {Sommerfield, C. K. and Lee, H. J.}
}
@article {642,
	title = {Magnitude and variability of Holocene sediment accumulation in Santa Monica Bay, California},
	journal = {Mar Environ Res},
	volume = {56},
	year = {2003},
	note = {Sommerfield, Christopher KLee, Homa JengResearch Support, U.S. Gov{\textquoteright}t, Non-P.H.S.England2003/03/22 04:00Mar Environ Res. 2003 Jul-Aug;56(1-2):151-76.},
	month = {Jul-Aug},
	pages = {151-76},
	abstract = {The spatial variability of Holocene (past 10,000 years) sediment accumulation in Santa Monica Bay (California) was examined to identify controls sediment trapping in a bathymetrically complex coastal embayment and to provide geologic context for the post-industrial sedimentary record and associated pollution gradients. Sediment chronologies based on downcore AMS 14C dates were used to quantify long-term (millennia) accumulation rates in an effort to elucidate particle-transport pathways and sinks. Sediment accumulation rates for the full range of bayfloor environments (50-630 m water depths) range from 22 to 102 mg/cm(2)/year (15-88 mm/100 year), have an overall mean of 51+/-21 mg/cm(2)/year (1 sigma, n=11), and are comparable to rates reported for adjacent borderland basins. Maximal accumulation rates on the Malibu shelf and within a reentrant to Redondo canyon are interpreted to reflect (1) proximity to sediment sources and (2) localized oceanographic and topographic conditions conducive to sediment trapping and deposition. The 14C-derived accumulation rates are 2-10 times lower than rates determined through (210)Pb geochronology for the same sites in a related study, revealing that Holocene sediment accumulation has been non-steady-state. Santa Monica Bay is an important sink for suspended matter; averaged over the past several millennia a mass of sediment equivalent to 10-80\% of the modern annual river supply is sequestered yearly. Net influx of suspended matter derived from the adjacent Palos Verdes shelf is evinced by a concentration gradient of p,p{\textquoteright}-DDE in bayfloor sediments, whereas the distribution of anthropogenic silver suggests transport from Santa Monica shelf to the southeastern boundary of the bay. The results of this study provide new insight to the long-term fates of particulate matter in Los Angeles coastal waters.},
	issn = {0141-1136 (Linking)},
	doi = {10.1016/S0141-1136(02)00329-X},
	author = {Sommerfield, C. K. and Lee, H. J.}
}
@article {2169,
	title = {Processes and rates of Holocene sedimentation in Santa Monica Bay, CA},
	journal = {EOS},
	volume = {Transactions of the American Geophysical Union},
	year = {2000},
	note = {id: 139},
	month = {2000},
	pages = {OS251},
	author = {Sommerfield, C. K. and Lee, H. J.}
}
