One of the more important pieces that I didn’t fully convey in the video is that from this and other rockfalls happening here, several hundred in all, my colleagues and I have recorded from the rock history record several dozen fossil species that indicate the potential for much warmer periods of water in Monterey Bay if you go back several million years. These species have never been known from this region in the past and, of the ones that are not extinct today, represent species with modern ranges that are much further south. More data needs to be collected and analyzed before we can make definitive conclusions, but the outlook initially is for periods of warmer water in Monterey Bay and Eustatic sea levels much higher than today by several hundreds of feet. And we are also discovering and describing new species that have never been known to science until now as well, all of which is very exciting! “This is the story of six articulated rock falls in Santa Cruz, California, that I mapped over time: it all started very small with a very small rock fall back in 2020…
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