Geologic Unit: Lone Pine

Usage:

Lone Pine Formation of Owens Valley Group (CA*)

Subunits:

Reward Conglomerate Member (CA*).

Geologic age:

early Permian*

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

Type section (= type section of Conglomerate Mesa Formation): exposures in hill, locally called Permian Bluff, on west side of Inyo Mountains about 5 km northwest of Cerro Gordo Mine in southern part of New York Butte 15-min quadrangle, Inyo Co., eastern CA (Stone and Stevens, 1987).
Named from town of Lone Pine in Owens Valley, [Lone Pine 7.5-min quadrangle], Inyo Co., eastern CA (Stone and Stevens, 1987).
Reference locality (= type locality of Owens Valley Formation, Merriam and Kirk, 1957): in foothills between Union Wash and Reward Mine about 9 mi southeast of Independence, between Owenyo and Kearsarge, in NE/4 Lone Pine 15-min quadrangle, southern Inyo Mountains, Inyo Co., eastern CA (Stone and Stevens, 1987).

AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province*