Usage:
Agua Sandstone Bed of Santos Shale Member of Temblor Formation (CA*)
Agua Sandstone Member of Temblor Formation (CA)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene*
Miocene, early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: outcrop at mouth of Cedar Creek [in sec. 28, T. 27 S., R. 18 E., Packwood Creek 7.5-min quadrangle, Kern Co., southern CA]. Named from Media Agua Creek in Temblor Range (Dibblee, 1973).
Reference section: at Zemorra Creek, in sec. 9, T. 29 S., R. 20 E., Carneros Rocks quadrangle, western Kern Co., southern CA (Dibblee, 1973).
AAPG geologic province:
San Joaquin basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).