Usage:
Caliente Formation (CA*)
Caliente Red Beds (CA)
Subunits:
Lockwood Clay [Bed] (CA).
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Caliente Range, in secs. 23 and 26, T. 11 N., R. 26 W., 5 to 6 mi northeast of New Cuyama [Elkhorn Hills and Wells Ranch quadrangles (scale 1:31,680), San Luis Obispo Co., CA] (Hill and others, 1958; Dibblee, 1973).
AAPG geologic province:
Coastal basins*
Santa Maria basin*
Ventura basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).