- Usage in publication:
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- Goat Hill Member*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Greenstone
- Breccia
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Sierra Nevada province
Summary:
Named for Goat Hill. Type sec: exposures on N bank of Mokelumne River, sec 16-17 T5N R11E about 1 km S of Goat Hill, Amador Co, CA. Included as member of Logtown Ridge Formation. At Mokelumne River was called units 30-32 of Brower Creek Volcanic Member of Mariposa Fm (Clark, 1964, pl.8). Consists of greenstone interbedded with volcanic breccia and tuff with minor slate; cut-and-fill structures, soft-sediment deformation, fossiliferous. Conformably overlies Rabbit Flat Member (new); conformably underlies Pokerville Member (new) southward to Jackass Gulch area, beyond which it becomes uppermost member. Age is Late Jurassic (Callovian) based on ammonites. [Callovian is Late Jurassic in this paper].
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).
- Usage in publication:
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- Goat Hill Member*
- Modifications:
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- Age modified
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Sierra Nevada province
Summary:
Age changed based on Middle-Upper Jurassic boundary change based on top of Callovian-bottom of Oxfordian. Thus Goat Hill Member (Callovian) is Middle Jurassic.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).
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