Usage:
Soda Lake Shale Member of Vaqueros Formation (CA*-notable exposures in Caliente Range)
Soda Lake Formation (CA)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Sandstone member in Quail Canyon, in NW/4, SW/4 sec. 4, [T. _?_, R. _?_] southeast Caliente Range, Cuyama quadrangle; shale member in northwestern Caliente Range near Soda Lake, in T. 31 S., R. 19 E., Simmler quadrangle, San Luis Obispo Co., CA (Hill and others, 1958).
[Township and Range not recorded in GNU records (USGS DDS-6). --unresolved.]
AAPG geologic province:
California Coast Ranges province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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