- Usage in publication:
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- Asphalto lake bed
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Marl
- AAPG geologic province:
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- San Joaquin basin
Summary:
Pg. 168. Ashphalto lake bed. A small fresh-water deposit of fossiliferous blackish marl, about 40 miles southeast from Kettleman lake bed, 18 miles northwest of Buena Vista Lake, and 1,100 feet above sea level. Age is Pliocene.
[Probably named from exposures at or near Asphalto, a village near McKittrick, northwestern Kern Co., southern CA.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 83).
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