Geologic Unit: Conglomerate Mesa

Usage:

Conglomerate Mesa Formation of Owens Valley Group (CA*)

Geologic age:

Middle Permian (late Guadalupian)*

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

Type section (= type section of Lone Pine Formation): exposures in hill, locally called Permian Bluff, on west side of Inyo Mountains about 5 km northwest of Cerro Gordo Mine in southern part of New York Butte 15-min quadrangle, Inyo Co., eastern CA (Stone and Stevens, 1987).
Named from Conglomerate Mesa, a prominent mesa located about 5 km south of Cerro Gordo Mine in southernmost corner of New York Butte 15-min quadrangle, Inyo Co., eastern CA (Stone and Stevens, 1987).
Reference locality (= type locality of Owens Valley Formation, Merriam and Kirk, 1957): in foothills between Union Wash and Reward Mine about 9 mi southeast of Independence, between Owenyo and Kearsarge, in NE/4 Lone Pine 15-min quadrangle, southern Inyo Mountains, Inyo Co., eastern CA (Stone and Stevens, 1987).

AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province*