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Geologic Unit: Red Man

Usage:

No current usage?
(†Red Man Sandstone (CA) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the CA Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS.)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous


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

South limb Devil's Den syncline, Sawtooth Ridge quadrangle, Kern Co., southern CA. About 2 mi northwest of synclinal axis formation crops out in prominent crags which are here named Red Man Rocks (Marsh, 1956 [abs.], 1960).


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.

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