Usage:
Bissell Formation of Tropico Group (CA*)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: an east-trending ridge, in N/2 sec. 11, T. 10 N., R. 11 W., [northeast of Bissell Station on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe RR, approx. Lat. 34 deg. 59 min. 00 sec. N., Long. 118 deg. 00 min. 51 sec. W., in northeastern corner of Bissell 7.5-min quadrangle, 1947 ed.], in Bissell Hills, Kern Co., southern CA. Named from Bissell Hills [series of hogback ridges north of RR] (Dibblee, 1958).
[Since Dibblee's publication, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe RR has been re-routed to areas a few mi north of original route. Bissell Station now in sec. 1, T. 10 N., R. 11 W., northeastern corner of Bissell 7.5-min quadrangle, Kern Co., southern CA. Bissell Hills are the southeast-trending series of ridges extending from sec. 21, T. 10 N., R. 11 W., in eastern part of Bissell 7.5-min quadrangle, to west side of town of Edwards, in sec. 32, T. 10 N., R. 10 W., in western part of Edwards 7.5-min quadrangle, Kern Co., southern CA.]
AAPG geologic province:
Mojave basin*
San Joaquin basin*
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