Usage:
No current usage?
(†Lovel Shale (CA) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the CA Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not stated. Area of report is Avenal Ridge-Reef Ridge area of southern Diablo Range, 200 mi southeast of San Francisco, in Fresno and Kings Cos., CA (Tamesis [abs.], 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
San Joaquin basin
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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