Usage:
Asphalto Lake Bed (CA)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Pliocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Probably named from exposures at or near Asphalto, a village near McKittrick, northwestern Kern Co., southern CA (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
San Joaquin basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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