Pg. J5 (fig. 3), J18 (fig. 13), J21, J38-J39. Bee Member of Kearsarge Formation. Megabreccia containing blocks and boulders of quartzite and limestone; = base of Kearsarge Formation (new). Thickness 13.5 m. Unconformably underlies Snowcaps Member (new) of Kearsarge Formation; unconformably overlies Squares Tunnel Formation (new). Present in northwestern-facies belt (base-of-slope and deep basinal environments), notably the Vaughn Gulch area, Inyo County, eastern California. Rocks previously included in Perdido Formation by some geologists. Age is Early Mississippian (late Kinderhookian); Lower CRENULATA zone of Poole and Sandberg (1991).
Type section (=type section of Kearsarge Formation): on ridge on south side of Vaughn Gulch, about 11.5 km east of Independence, west side of Inyo Mountains, [in NW/4 SW/4 sec. 9, T. 13 S., R. 36 E., approx. Lat. 36 deg. 49 min. 00 sec. N., Long. 118 deg. 04 min. 18 sec. W., Bee Springs Canyon 7.5-min quadrangle, 1994 ed.], Inyo Co., eastern CA. Named from Bee Springs in the lower Mazourka Canyon area, Inyo Co., eastern CA.

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