Usage:
Bena Gravel (CA*)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: hills 3 mi southeast of Bena, in southwestern part of Breckenridge Mountain 15-min quadrangle, Kern Co., San Joaquin Valley, southern CA. Also well exposed from Bena northwestward into Cottonwood Canyon. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from town of Bena (Dibblee and Chesterman, 1953).
Type section: west-dipping 2-mi-long section that extends east from a point 1.5 mi south of Bena, Breckenridge Mountain 15-min quadrangle, Kern Co., southern CA (Dibblee and Warne, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
San Joaquin basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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