Usage:
No current usage.
(†Pato Red Member of Vaqueros Formation (CA) abandoned. Rocks reallocated to Caliente Formation. See Caliente.)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (early Miocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Pato Canyon, east of Santa Barbara Canyon, Cuyama Valley, Santa Barbara Co., southern CA (English, 1916).
AAPG geologic province:
Coastal basins
Santa Maria basin
Ventura basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
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