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Subject Index 



Lignin, 277, 284, 293 

 Limpets, 18, 145-147 

 Lipids, 265, 284, 286, 290-293 

 Lobsters, 306 

 Loma Sea VaUey, 282 



Long Basin, sediments, 220-223, 250, 254, 278, 285, 286, 

 290 



topography, 51-55 



water, 108, 110 

 Long Beach, 80, 124, 125, 138, 297, 314-318, 326, 327 

 Long Beach Harbor Department, 318, 325 

 Los Angeles, 4, 11, 80, 236, 300, 304, 305, 314-317 

 Los Angeles Basin, economic, 291-296, 319 



sediments, 135, 220, 227-229, 242, 246, 247, 254, 255 

 264, 276, 282, 283, 289 



structure, 82, 84, 88, 93, 94 



topography, 51-55, 135 



water, 135 

 Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation, 300 

 Los Angeles City Engineer, 198, 316 

 Los Angeles County Flood Control District, 297 

 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, 302 

 Los Angeles harbor, 125, 126, 137, 138, 308-311 

 Los Angeles Harbor Department, 126, 307, 308, 317 

 Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor Pollution Control 



Committee, 138 

 Los Angeles River, 25-28, 49, 90, 206, 238, 317 

 Los Angeles State and County Museum, 155 

 Los Coronados Islands, 67, 165, 207 



Mackerel, 153, 154, 305 



Magnoha Petroleum Company, 250, 288 



Mainland shelf, 32, 36-38, 113, 116, 181, 198-208, 222, 



273, 305 

 Malaga Cove, 184 

 MaUbu, 314 



Mammals, 73, 144, 155, 156, 178, 240 

 Manganese oxide, 69, 70, 240, 245, 319 

 Manhattan Beach, 297 



Marine Life Research Program, 97-99, 101, 105-107 

 Marine Research Committee, 305 

 Marineland of the Pacific, 23, 157 

 Marshes, 11, 140-144, 180-183, 266, 272, 285, 287 

 Median diameter, 181-184, 187, 191, 198-200, 205, 218- 



222, 225, 236-238, 259, 280, 293 

 Medusae, 152, 162 



Metamorphic rocks, 66-68, 82, 91, 93 

 Methane, 141, 217, 287 

 Minor structures, 87-94 

 Miocene Epoch, 73-75, 94, 135, 162, 248 

 Miocene rocks, 12, 13, 16, 47-50, 54, 65-68, 73, 74, 91, 



93, 134, 135, 150, 154, 155, 162, 183, 207, 213, 276, 



289,292,293,311-313 

 Mission Bay, 31, 143, 193, 197, 231, 315 

 Mission Beach, 127, 141, 241 

 Mohorovicic discontinuity, 81-83, 85 

 MoUusks, 6, 16, 135, 136, 141-148, 150, 166-168, 170- 



173, 207-210, 218, 226, 242, 278 

 Montalvo, 323, 324 



Monterey Oil Company, 321, 323, 325, 327 



Montmorillonite, 230, 231, 236, 260, 261 



Mud flats, 1 1 



Mud-water interface, 224, 239, 258-264 



Mugu Canyon, 27, 42, 44, 46, 47, 49, 50, 217, 226 



Murray Fracture Zone, 59-61 



National Science Foundation, 223, 247, 288, 289 

 Nekton, 148, 152-157 

 Nevada, comparison with, 5 



New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial 

 Research, 250, 288, 290 



see also Rafter, T. A. 

 Newport Bay, 138, 141, 146, 180-182, 248, 266, 287, 315 

 Newport Beach, 38, 66, 122, 144, 189, 192, 236, 310, 314, 



315, 323-326 

 Newport Canyon, 27, 42-44, 47, 50, 191 

 Newport-Inglewood structure, 88, 93, 94 



see also Rafter, T. A. 

 Nitrate, 108, 112, 138, 265, 268-271 

 Nitrite, 268-270 

 Nitrogen in sediments, 177, 181, 209, 211, 220, 225, 227, 



229, 268-271, 274-280, 284-287, 291-294 



No Name Basin, sediments, 220, 250, 254, 278, 290, 222- 

 224 



topography, 51-54 



water, 108 

 Northeast Bank, 216 

 Northern Water, 103-107 



Nuclear Science and Engineering Corporation, 302 

 Nutrients, 99, 106-108, 176, 267, 273 



see also Phosphate, Nitrate, Silica 



Oceanside, 43, 165, 231, 314, 321 



Office of SaUne Water, 298 



Off"shore transportation of sediments, 27-30, 50-57, 217- 



219, 240-242 

 Oil fields, 88, 291-294, 318, 323-327 

 OU seeps, 249, 320, 321 

 OUgocene Epoch, 74, 94, 135 

 Oligocene rocks, 93, 135, 289 

 Optical rotation, 282, 291 

 Organic carbon, 181, 209, 212, 249, 270 

 Organic matter, 104, 110, 138, 141, 145, 168, 173, 175, 



179, 181-183, 202, 209-212, 218, 220, 224-230, 236, 



239, 240, 245, 246, 249, 251-258, 275-294, 300, 301, 



319 

 bsborn Bank, 63, 244 

 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 326 

 Oxidation of organic matter, 72, 73, 104, 105, 110, 138, 



168, 175, 177, 230, 246, 254, 256, 265-270, 273-281, 



286, 289-294, 301 

 Oxnard, 300 

 Oxygen, 98, 99, 104-113, 134, 135, 152, 168, 170, 213, 



230, 236, 246, 265, 266, 270, 273, 284, 301, 317 

 Oxygen isotopes, 137, 251 



Oysters, 141, 180 



Paleoceanography, 133-137, 168 



