Usage:
Paradise Ranch Shale Member of Peace Valley Formation of Ridge Basin Group (CA)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposure along the east side of U.S. Interstate Highway I-5 from Templin Highway north to Three Mile Grade, 9 km north of Castaic, Los Angeles Co., CA. Named from Paradise Ranch on the west side of I-5 (Link, 1982).
AAPG geologic province:
Los Angeles basin
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