Pg. 6 (fig. 2), 8 (fig. 4), 9, 22, pls. 2, 3. See also 1941 [abs.], GSA Bull., v. 52, no. 12, pt. 2, p. 1954. Dosados sand and shale member of Moreno formation. Irregularly bedded sands and shales; locally contains dikes. Thickness about 200 feet. Underlies Tierra Loma shale member (new) of Moreno; unconformably overlies Panoche formation. Fossils (vertebrates, foraminifers, invertebrate megafossils). Age is Late Cretaceous. On the basis of this mapping it is concluded that Anderson and Pack (1915) show base of Moreno formation in [Ortegalito] Creek some 1,800 feet stratigraphically lower than their type Moreno in Moreno Gulch.
Type locality: Escarpado Canyon, Panoche Hills, 6 mi south of Moreno Gulch and 2 mi north of Panoche Creek, in secs. 7 and 8, T. 15 S., R. 12 E., [Chounet Ranch 7.5-min quadrangle], Fresno Co., southern CA. Name is contraction of Spanish "dos a dos" [Dosados Canyon is about 0.5 mi north of type locality].

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Dosados Sandstone and Shale Member of Moreno Formation is adopted by the USGS. (=Dosados Sand and Shale Member of Payne, 1951.) Consists of dark-brown silty shale and interbedded thin, fine-grained, turbidite sandstone beds; also contains generally thick channelized bodies of poorly bedded sandstone. Thickness up to about 60 m [about 197 feet]. In places mapped [undifferentiated] with Tierra Loma Shale Member. Age is Late Cretaceous (Maestrichtian).
Type section: Escarpado Canyon, [6 mi south of Moreno Gulch and 2 mi north of Panoche Creek, Panoche Hills], in sec. 7, T. 15 S., R. 12 E. and in sec. 12, T. 15 S., R. 11 E., Chounet Ranch 7.5-min quadrangle, Fresno Co., southern CA (see Payne, 1951).

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