Usage:
Canebrake Conglomerate (CA*)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary to Quaternary (Pliocene to Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: at the southeastern base of Vallecito Mountains where formation is 7,000 ft thick, 3 mi west of Fish Creek Wash [in northeastern corner of Cuyapaipe quadrangle, San Diego Co., southern CA], southwestern Imperial Valley region. Named from Canebrake Wash, [in T. 14 and 15 S., R. 6 and 7 E., Cuyapaipe quadrangle, San Diego Co., southern CA] (Dibblee, 1954).
AAPG geologic province:
Salton basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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