Usage:
Buzzard Peak Conglomerate Member of Topanga Formation (CA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not stated. Crops out in core of Buzzard Peak anticline in San Jose Hills, 5 mi west of Pomona [San Dimas 7.5-min quadrangle] Los Angeles Co., CA. Origin of name not stated by authors (Woodford and others, 1946).
AAPG geologic province:
Los Angeles basin*
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