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Usage:
Debris Dam Sandstone (CA)
Subunits:
Romero Conglomerate Lentil (CA).
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Small canyon that drains westward to Agua Caliente Canyon about 1.5 mi northeast of Pendola Guard Station and 1-1/8 mi south of Big Caliente Debris Dam, Santa Barbara Co., southern CA. Base of section 6,200 ft S. 1 deg. E. of Big Caliente Dam, and top is 6,700 ft S. of 23 deg. E. of dam. Formation forms part of [Agua] Caliente anticline. To northwest of type section, beds extend past Big Caliente Debris Dam to northern limit of area; southwestward, they extend approximately 1 mi where they disappear beneath Juncal formation; seemingly they reappear south of Santa Ynez fault in an elongate east-west-trending belt; however, correlation here is uncertain because of lack of fossils and occurrence of Romero conglomerate lentils (Page and others, 1951).
AAPG geologic province:
Santa Maria basin
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