Usage:
Antelope unit (informal) of McClure Shale Member of Monterey Formation (CA)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Name applied to productive oil zone in subsurface, Rio Bravo field, 15 mi northwest of Bakersfield, Kern Co., central CA [Type locality not designated] (Noble, 1940).
Exposures described from Crocker Flat-Recruit Pass area, northwest of Fellows, central Temblor Range, Kern and San Luis Obispo Cos., central CA (Simonson and Krueger, 1942).
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 ([ ]).