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  • Usage in publication:
    • Timber Canyon fanglomerate
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Los Angeles basin
    • Ventura basin
Publication:

Grant, U.S., IV, and Gale, H.R., 1931, Catalogue of the marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California and adjacent regions: San Diego Society of Natural History Memoirs, v. 1, 1036 p.


Summary:

Pg. 37, 38, 63. Timber Canyon fanglomerate. Reddish fanglomerate, of [late] Pleistocene age, occurring on top of the ridges and beveling the edges of the upturned marine beds west of Timber Canyon, on north side of Santa Clara Valley. This deposit was formed at base of Santa Paula Peak. Is present in Ventura and Los Angeles basins, southern California.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2150).


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