No current usage.
(†San Francisco Sandstone (CA) abandoned.)
Jurassic(?) and late Tertiary
Forms greater part of hills and mountains around the San Francisco Bay and, also, a considerable part of mass of Coast Mountains, western CA (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
Santa Cruz basin
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