Usage:
Barstow Formation (CA*)
Subunits:
Owl Conglomerate Member (CA).
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (early to middle Miocene; Aquitanian to Serravallian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: south-dipping sequence in eastern Mud Hills just west of Solomon Canyon, in sec. 20 and in N/2 sec. 29, T. 11 N. R. 1 W., Opal Mountain. and Lane Mountain 15-min quadrangles, San Bernardino Co., CA (Dibblee, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Mojave basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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