Usage:
Poverty Flat Sandstone (CA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Eocene, middle*
Eocene, late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along California Aqueduct, in secs. 20, 29, and 32, T. 7 S., R. 8 E., Newman 7.5-min quadrangle, Stanislaus Co., CA (Bartow, 1985).
AAPG geologic province:
California Coast Ranges province*
San Joaquin 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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).