Usage:
Santa Rosa Hills Limestone (CA*)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; late Osagean to early Meramecian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on northwest side of hill 6170 in Santa Rosa Hills, in T. 17 S., R. 40 E., NW/4 Darwin 15-min quadrangle, Inyo Co., CA (Stone and others, 1987).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
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