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Geologic Unit: Tecuya
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Tecuya beds
  • Modifications:
    • Named
    • Biostratigraphic dating
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
    • Shale
    • Lava
    • Tuff
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Transverse Ranges province
Publication:

Stock, Chester, 1920, An early Tertiary vertebrate fauna from the southern Coast Ranges of California: University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, v. 12, no. 4, p. 267-276.


Summary:

Unit is named the Tecuja [note spelling] beds. Consists of red colored sandstones and shales; also includes tuffs and lavas. Conglomerates are also present in several horizons. Age is [Oligocene or Miocene].

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Tecuya formation
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Transverse Ranges province
Publication:

Marks, J.G., 1943, Type locality of the Tejon formation [California], IN Jenkins, O.P., and others, Geologic formations and economic development of the oil and gas fields of California; in four parts, including outline geologic map showing oil and gas fields and drilled areas: California Division of Mines Bulletin, no. 118, pt. 3, p. 534-538.


Summary:

Tecuja beds of Stock (1920) is used here as a formational name. Age is Oligocene(?) [figure 233].

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Tecuya Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Adopted
    • Geochronologic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Transverse Ranges province
Publication:

Nilsen, T.H., Dibblee, T.W., Jr., and Addicott, W.O., 1973, Lower and middle Tertiary stratigraphic units of the San Emigdio and western Tehachapi Mountains, California, IN Contributions to stratigraphy: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1372-H, p. H1-H23.


Summary:

Tecuja beds of Stock (1920) and Tecuya formation of Marks (1943) is adopted as the Tecuya Formation. Is informally divided into a lower unit consisting of interbedded conglomerates, sandstones, and mudstones, with local breccias in the lower part; a volcanic unit consisting of black fine-grained ophitic basalt and some scoriaceous basalt and pinkish-brown-weathering blue-gray dacite; and an upper unit consisting of crudely interbedded red, green buff, and blue-gray cobble and pebble conglomerates, sandstones, and mudstones. Thickness of type section is approximately 2,350 ft. [Conformably] overlies the Tejon Formation; conformably underlies and interfingers with the Temblor Formation. Age is Eocene(?) to Miocene based on isotopic dates of 22.3 +/-0.7 Ma to 21.5 +/-0.7 Ma from the volcanic unit and from fossils [foraminifers, mollusks] and stratigraphic relations.

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


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