Usage:
Malibu Bowl Tongue of Conejo Volcanics of Topanga Group (CA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: Malibu Bowl [in SW/4 sec. 23, T. 1 S., R. 18 W.], Santa Monica Mountains, west central Malibu Beach 7.5-min quadrangle, Los Angeles Co., CA (Yerkes and Campbell, 1979).
AAPG geologic province:
Los Angeles basin*
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