Usage:
No current usage.
(†/Bitter Creek Sandstone, †/Bitter Creek Formation, †/Bitter Creek Beds, or †/Bitter Creek Sands (CA-local) replaced with Branch Canyon Formation. See Branch Canyon.)
[Preoccupied.]
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: at Bitter Creek, Cuyama Valley, [Cuyama Ranch 7.5-min quadrangle, Santa Barbara Co., southern CA]. Crops out prominently on both sides of Salisbury Canyon (Dibblee, 1951).
AAPG geologic province:
Coastal basins
Santa Maria basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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