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Geologic Unit: Cold Creek

Usage:

Cold Creek Member of Topanga Canyon Formation of Topanga Group (CA*-recognized locally east of Malibu Canyon)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Miocene, middle*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Cold Creek-Old Topanga Canyon area, in SW/4 sec. 35, T. 1 N., R. 17 W., Santa Monica Mountains, northeast corner Malibu Beach 7.5-min quadrangle, Los Angeles Co., CA (Yerkes and Campbell, 1979).


AAPG geologic province:

Los Angeles 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 ([ ]).