Imperial Formation

Imperial Formation
Stratigraphic range:
1.) Canada: Devonian of Paleozoic Era.
2.) California: Pliocene of Cenozoic Era.
Type Two separate geologic formations
Underlies Palm Spring Formation (California)
Overlies Ocotillo Formation (California)
Location
Region 1.) Northwest Territories,
Canada
2.) Colorado Desert,
Imperial County, California,
United States

The Imperial Formation is the name of two distinct and unrelated geologic formations in North America, of different geologic Eras.

Separate formations

Canadian Paleozoic Era formation

The older Imperial Formation occurs in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period of the Paleozoic Era. [1]

Californian Cenozoic Era formation

The younger Imperial Formation occurs in the Colorado Desert, in Imperial County of Southern California. It dates to the ZancleanLower Pliocene stage of the Pliocene Epoch, during the Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era.

It underlies the Palm Spring Formation, and overlies the Ocotillo Formation. [2]

See also

References


Neogene Period
Miocene Pliocene
Aquitanian | Burdigalian
Langhian | Serravallian
Tortonian | Messinian
Zanclean | Piacenzian
Paleozoic Era
Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian



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