Usage:
Imperial Formation (CA*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in CA: Latrinia Sand Member.
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene to Pliocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: where the coral reef is exposed in Alverson Canyon on south side of Coyote Mountain, Imperial Co., southern CA (Hanna, 1926).
AAPG geologic province:
Salton 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 ([ ]).