Usage:
Stokes Canyon Breccia Member of Calabasas Formation of Topanga Group (CA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Stokes Canyon area, in SW/4 sec. 33, T. 1 N., R. 17 W., and NW/4 sec. 4, T. 1 S., R. 17 W., north-central Santa Monica Mountains, Malibu Beach quadrangle, Los Angeles Co., CA (Yerkes and Campbell, 1979).
AAPG geologic province:
Los Angeles basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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