Tick Canyon Formation
The Tick Canyon Formation is a Miocene epoch geologic formation in the Sierra Pelona Mountains of Los Angeles County, California. [2]
Tick Canyon Formation Stratigraphic range: Early Miocene | |
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Type | Geologic formation |
Underlies | Mint Canyon Formation |
Overlies | Vasquez Formation |
Thickness | 0–1,000 feet (0–305 m) (average) |
Location | |
Coordinates | 34°25′56″N 118°23′32″W[1] |
Region | Sierra Pelona Mountains, Los Angeles County, California |
Country | United States |
Type section | |
Named for | Tick Canyon |
The Tick Canyon Basin drains into the Santa Clara River.[3]
Geology
The formation was deposited on land mostly by streams and consists of green sandstone, coarse-grained conglomerates, and red claystone.[2][4][5] It has an average thickness of 600 feet (180 m).[4]
The formation overlies the Oligocene Period Vasquez Formation, and underlies the Upper Miocene Mint Canyon Formation.[2][4]
North of the Tick Canyon fault, the beds are almost vertical.[2]
Fossils
It preserves vertebrate fossils of the Lower Miocene subperiod of the Miocene epoch, in the Neogene Period of the Cenozoic Era.[2][6]
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References
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tick Canyon Formation
- Elsmerecanyon.com: "Tick Canyon Geology"
- "Geologic Map of the Mint Canyon Quadrangle" (DF-57) by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr., 1996.
- Caltech.edu: THESIS - "Geology of the Upper Tick Canyon area, California"; Birman, Joseph Harold; 1950.
- Caltech.edu: THESIS - "Geology of the Mint Canyon area, Los Angeles County, California"; Holser, William T.; 1946.
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 31 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
- Geology of Tick Canyon, by Ygnacio Bonillas, 1933
- Geology of the Upper Tick Canyon Area, by Albert Hedden, 1948
- Geology of the Upper Tick Canyon Area, by Joseph Birman, 1950
- Geology of the Upper Tick Canyon Area, by Carel Otte, Jr., 1950
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