Usage:
Cascajo Conglomerate Member of San Joaquin Formation (CA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Pliocene, early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Cascajo Hills on west flank of South Dome, Kettleman Hills [Avenal Gap 7.5-min quadrangle, Kern Co.] San Joaquin Valley, CA. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from Cascajo Hills (Woodring and others, 1940).
AAPG geologic province:
San Joaquin basin*
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