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Geologic Unit: Ingleside

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Ingleside Chert of Franciscan Group (CA) or †Ingleside Chert Member of Franciscan Formation (CA) abandoned.)


Geologic age:

Jurassic and Cretaceous


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

Named from exposures in San Miguel Hills, east of town of Ingleside, San Francisco 15-min quadrangle, San Francisco Co., CA (Lawson, 1914).
[Discrepancy: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX) state unit is "named for exposures IN Ingleside, San Miguel Hills ..." --unresolved.]


AAPG geologic province:

California Coast Ranges province


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

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