Usage:
Temblor Formation (CA*)
Temblor Sandstone (CA*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in CA: Agua Sandstone Member, Buttonbed Sandstone Member*, Carneros Sandstone Member*, Cymric Shale Member*, Media Shale Member*, Santos Shale Member*, Wygal Sandstone Member*.
Geologic age:
Miocene*
Oligocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures on Temblor Ranch, McKittrick district, Kern Co., south-central CA (Anderson, 1905).
AAPG geologic province:
San Joaquin basin*
California Coast Ranges province[?]
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 ([ ]).