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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cold Creek Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Los Angeles basin
Publication:

Yerkes, R.F., and Campbell, R.H., 1979, Stratigraphic nomenclature of the central Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, IN Contributions to stratigraphy, 1979: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1457-E, p. E1-E30.


Summary:

Type locality in Cold Creek-Old Topanga Canyon area, SW/4 sec. 35, T1N R17W, Santa Monica Mountains, northeast corner Malibu Beach 7.5'quad, Los Angeles Co., CA. Consists of medium-grained, bedded, silty to pebbly, fossiliferous, marine sandstone which is 707 m thick. Conformably overlies the Fernwood Member (new) of the Topanga Canyon Formation of the Topanga Group; unconformably underlies the Conejo Volcanics of the Topanga Group, or locally, the Calabasas Formation (new) (Topanga Group). Age is middle Miocene (="Temblor" stage).

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


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