Usage:
Serpiente Sandstone (CA-recognized locally in Orchard Peak area)
(†Serpiente Sandstone (CA) not used by the USGS. Rocks reallocated to Panoche Formation. See also Panoche.)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in CA: Avila Member, Huevo member (informal), Torcido member (informal).
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Serpiente Ridge and vicinity. Pryamid Hills quadrangle, Orchard Peak area which lies principally in northwestern Kern Co., southern CA (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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