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Geologic Unit: Sycamore Canyon

Usage:

Sycamore Canyon Member of Puente Formation (CA*)


Subunits:

MEMBER STATUS (alphabetical) --all in CA: Central Fee sandstone unit (informal), Hoover conglomerate unit (informal).


Geologic age:

late Tertiary (late Miocene)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Notable exposures in Whittier Hills area, Los Angeles Co., southern CA (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200).


AAPG geologic province:

Los Angeles basin*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).