Usage:
Cabezon Fanglomerate (CA)
Geologic age:
Pleistocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area apparently in foothills north of Cabazon [previously spelled Cabezon]. Named from Cabezon Station, Riverside Co., San Bernardino Mountains, southeastern CA (Vaughan, 1922; Allen, 1957).
Post office now spelled Cabazon, but Vaughan used the Indian spelling Cabezon and this is retained as formation name.
AAPG geologic province:
Salton basin
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