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  • Usage in publication:
    • Panorama Hills formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gravel
    • Sand
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • California Coast Ranges province
Publication:

Dibblee, T.W., Jr., 1962, Displacements on the San Andreas rift zones and related structures in Carrizo Plain and vicinity, IN Geology of Carrizo Plains and San Andreas Fault: San Joaquin Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, Joint annual meeting of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Pacific Section, and San Joaquin Geological Society, October, 1962, p. 5-12, (incl. geologic map, scale 1:125,000)


Summary:

Type locality designated as Panorama Hills and vicinity, SW/4 T31S R21E and sec.1-3 T32S R21E, Kern Co, CA. Northwesterly from Elkhorn Hills, Bitterwater Creek shale (new) grades laterally through littoral sandstone with Pliocene molluscan fossils into nonmarine gravel herein named Panorama Hills formation. Is composed of some 4000 ft of crudely bedded gray pebble-cobble gravels and coarse sand of granitic and some siliceous shale detritus. Unconformably underlies Paso Robles formation. Unconformably overlies granitic breccia of Santa Margarita formation. Shown on geologic map of Caliente and Temblor Ranges. Is Pliocene age.

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


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