Usage:
Tecuya Formation (CA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Eocene(?)* to Miocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: crest of first ridge west of Tecuya Canyon, 3 mi west of Grapevine, in W/2 sec. 25 and E/2 sec. 26, T. 10 N., R. 20 W., Grapevine 7.5-min quadrangle, [Kern Co.] CA (Nilsen and others, 1973).
AAPG geologic province:
Transverse Ranges province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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