Tick Canyon Formation (CA)
Tertiary
Miocene, early
or
Miocene, middle
Type section: Locality 201 [near head of Vasquez Canyon], Mint Canyon 7.5-min quadrangle, Los Angeles Co., CA (Jahns, 1940).
Los Angeles basin
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