Usage:
Dove Spring Formation of [†]Ricardo Group (CA)
(†Ricardo Group not used by the USGS.)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, middle to Miocene, late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: between Red Rock and Last Chance Canyons, El Paso Mountains, Kern Co., CA (Loomis and Burbank, 1988).
AAPG geologic province:
Mojave basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).