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  • Usage in publication:
    • Owl Conglomerate Member
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Conglomerate
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Mojave basin
Publication:

Dibblee, T.W., Jr., 1968, Geology of the Fremont Peak and Opal Mountain quadrangles, California: California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin, no. 188, 64 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

Unit is named the Owl Conglomerate Member of the Barstow Formation. Consists of gray cobble and boulder conglomerate in arkosic sandstone matrix. Thickness is 75 m at type; ranges from 58 to 300 m. Unconformably overlies the Pickhandle Formation; conformably underlies unnamed shale and fanglomerate of the Barstow. (B1520)

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


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