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Geologic Unit: Cushenbury Springs

Usage:

Cushenbury Springs Formation (CA)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Quaternary
Pliocene(?)
Pleistocene(?)


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

[Type locality]: exposures along northern escarpment of San Bernadino Mountains from Arrastre Canyon 19 km west to Dry Canyon, Lucerne Valley quadrangle, San Bernadino Co., CA (Shreve, 1968).


AAPG geologic province:

Transverse Ranges province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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