Usage:
/Burnt Canyon breccia [informal] (CA-recognized locally in San Gorgonio Pass area)
Considered informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized. [Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Burnt Canyon Limestone by Wheeler (1948) in NV.]
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposure in San Gorgonio Pass, Riverside Co., southern CA (Allen, 1954, 1957).
AAPG geologic province:
Salton basin
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