Usage:
Ballena Gravel (CA)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: southwest of Ballena, where the gravel caps ridge 300 to 500 ft high, Ramona quadrangle, San Diego Co., southeastern CA (Miller, 1935).
AAPG geologic province:
Capistrano basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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