Usage:
Vedder Sand (CA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): 751 ft cored interval, depth-interval 1,902 to 2,653 ft, Shell Oil "Vedder" No. 1 well, in sec. 9, T. 27 S., R. 28 E., Mount Poso oil field, Kern Co., CA (Addicott, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
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 ([ ]).