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Geologic Unit: Pyramid Hill

Usage:

Pyramid Hill Member of Jewett Sand (CA*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Miocene, early*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section (subsurface): 185 ft cored interval, depth-interval 1,690 to 1,875 ft, Shell Oil Jewett No. 1 well, southern Round Mountain oil field, in sec. 29, T. 28 S., R. 29 E., Kern Co., CA (Addicott, 1970).


AAPG geologic 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 ([ ]).