Usage:
Irvington Gravel (CA)
Geologic age:
Pleistocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not stated. Exposed at foot of Mission Peak (referred to by Savage as "Irvington-Mission San Jose bench"), Alameda Co., northern CA. Outcrop area is bounded on north by alluvium from Mission Creek and west by Hayward fault.
AAPG geologic province:
Northern Coast Range province
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