Usage:
Moonlight Formation (CA)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Moonlight Valley which runs along south limb of Devil's Den syncline, just north of Avenal Ridge, northeastern Kern Co., southern CA (Marsh 1956 [abs.], 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
San Joaquin basin
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