Usage:
Cereza Peak Shale Member of Peace Valley Formation of Ridge Basin Group (CA)
Geologic age:
Miocene, late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposure at base of Cherry Peak, east of CA Highway 99, about 17 km north of Castaic, Los Angeles Co., CA. Cereza is Spanish for cherry and is used because name Cherry Peak is preoccupied (Link, 1982).
AAPG geologic province:
Los Angeles basin
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