Usage:
Cozy Dell Shale (CA*)
Cozy Dell Formation of Tejon Group (CA)
Cozy Dell Shale of Tejon Group (CA)
Cozy Dell Shale Member of Tejon Formation (CA)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Typically exposed in Cozy Dell Canyon, on east side of Ventura River, [Ventura 15-min quadrangle], Ventura Co., southern CA (Kerr and Schenk, 1928).
AAPG geologic province:
Santa Maria basin*
Ventura basin*
[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 ([ ]).