- Usage in publication:
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- Anthony shale
- Anthony sandstone
- Modifications:
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- Revised
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
Pg. 21-22. Anthony shale and (or) Anthony sandstone included in Anthony cyclothem. [Age is Pennsylvanian (Pottsville).]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 110).
- Usage in publication:
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- Anderson Sand
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Sacramento basin
Summary:
Type section is subsurface exposures in Signal Upham No.1 Well, Sherman Island Gas Field, sec.26 T3N R2E, Sacramento Co, west-central CA. Is composed of clean, medium grained, well sorted , quartz sandstone. Is 61 m thick. Overlies Martinez Shale. Underlies "Meganos C shale". Is Paleocene age. [Name "Anderson Formation" used by Morrison (1972) fig. 6].
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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