Usage:
Bitterwater Creek Shale (CA*)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Bitterwater Creek, on southwest flank of Temblor Range, 6 mi southwest of Maricopa, in secs. 32 and 33, T. 11 N., R. 24 W., [bdry. btw. Ballinger Canyon and Maricopa 7.5-min quadrangles], Kern Co., central CA (Dibblee, 1973).
AAPG geologic province:
Coastal basins*
San Joaquin basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).