The following article provides information on seven Californian basins in the time period of the Neogene. The basins are, in order as shown in California borderland basin lithology map, the Offshore or Cortez/Tanner Banks basin, Palos Verdes Hills basin, Santa Barbara basin, Oxnard – Ventura basin, Ridge basin, Cuyama Valley basin, and the Elk Hills basin. All of these basins are basins of Southern California. Their locations can be seen in Figure 1. The creation of these borderland basins can be attributed to some form of tectonic processes. The basins along the southern half of California, along the coast and influenced by both the subduction of the pacific plate and the faulting that it causes. Some of the faults are pulling apart and
