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Geologic Units: Catalina
  • Usage in publication:
    • Catalina Metamorphic facies
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Los Angeles basin
Publication:

Woodford, A.O., 1924, The Catalina metamorphic facies of the Franciscan series: University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, v. 15, no. 3, p. 49-68.


Summary:

Unit is named the Catalina Metamorphic Facies of the Franciscan Series. Age is pre-Late Cretaceous.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


  • Usage in publication:
    • Catalina schist*
  • Modifications:
    • Adopted
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Los Angeles basin
Publication:

Schoellhamer, J.E., and Woodford, A.O., 1951, The floor of the Los Angeles basin, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino Counties, California: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Map, OM-117, 1 sheet, scale 1:96,000


Summary:

Catalina Metamorphic Facies of the Franciscan series (Woodford, 1924) is adopted as the Catalina schist. Age is Mesozoic or older.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


  • Usage in publication:
    • Catalina Schist*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Los Angeles basin
Publication:

Powell, R.E., 1993, Balanced palinspastic reconstruction of pre-late Cenozoic paleogeology, southern California; geologic and kinematic constraints on evolution of the San Andreas fault system, IN Powell, R.E., Weldon, R.J., II, and Matti, J.C., eds., The San Andreas fault system; displacement, palinspastic reconstruction, and geologic evolution: Geological Society of America Memoir, 178, p. 1-106.


Summary:

Age (metamorphic) of the Catalina Schist is Early Cretaceous.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


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