Usage:
Soquel Member of Puente Formation (CA*)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (late Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from the canyon that lies north of Telegraph Canyon and joins Carbon Canyon near the boundary between secs. 10 and 11, T. 3 S., R. 9 W., in southern part of Puente Hills, [Yorba Linda 7.5-min quadrangle, Orange Co.], southern CA (Schoellhamer and others, 1954; see Woodford and others, 1944, USGS Oil and Gas Prelim. Map OM-23).
Typical exposures are in Carbon Canyon from Gilman Peak north 1.5 mi to vicinity of Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs, [Yorba Linda 7.5-min quadrangle, Orange, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino Cos.], southern CA (Schoellhamer and others, 1954).
AAPG geologic province:
Los Angeles basin*
Mojave 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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