Usage:
Fiss Fanglomerate of Tropico Group (CA*)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Fiss Hill, [on west side of Mojave Tropico Road, 1+ mi south-southeast of Gem Hill], 1.5 mi north-northeast of Tropico mine, 4.5 mi northwest of Rosamond, in west-central part of sec. 1, T. 9 N., R. 13 W., San Bernardino Base and Meridian, [Lat. 34 deg. 54 min. 05 sec. N., Long. 118 deg. 13 min. 06 sec. W., Soledad Mountain 7.5-min quadrangle], Kern Co., southern CA (Dibblee, 1958).
AAPG geologic province:
Mojave basin*
San Joaquin basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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