Usage:
Osgood Bed (CA)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Holocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Osgood Swamp, 0.5 km northwest of U.S. Highway 50 at the foot of Myers Grade, near South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado Co., CA (Davis, 1978).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Nevada province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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