Usage:
Freeman Silt (CA*)
Also called /Freeman-Jewett Shale in some reports.
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): 328 ft cored interval, depth-interval 890 to 1,218 ft, Shell Oil Jewett no. 1 well, southern Round Mountain oil field, in sec. 29, T. 28 S., R. 29 E., Kern Co., CA (Addicott, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
San Joaquin 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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