San Francisquito Formation

San Francisquito Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous, Paleocene
Type Geologic formation
Underlies Castaic Formation, Punchbowl Formation
Overlies San Gabriel Basement Complex
Thickness 4 kilometres (13,000 ft)
Location
Region San Gabriel Mountains & Sierra Pelona Mountains,
Los Angeles County, California
Country United States

The San Francisquito Formation is a geologic formation in northern Los Angeles County, California.[1][2]

Areas where it is exposed include: San Francisquito Canyon of the Sierra Pelona Mountains, and the northwestern side of the Devil's Punchbowl gorge in the San Gabriel Mountains.[1][2]

Geology

The San Francisquito Formation is from marine deposits of the Late Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic Era, and the Early Paleocene epoch in the Paleogene period of the Cenozoic Era.[1][2] It is overlain by the Punchbowl Formation (east) and Castaic Formation (west), both of the Miocene and Pliocene epochs.[1] It overlies the crystalline San Gabriel Basement Complex.[1]

It is found between the San Andreas Fault on its north, and the Devil's Punchbowl Fault on its south.[1][2] The Pliocene epoch Crowder Formation is to the northeast.[1]

Fossils

It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Seismo.berkeley.edu: Field Guide to the Punchbowl Fault Zone, at Devil's Punchbowl Los Angeles County Park; San Andreas Fault Resources; University of California, Berkeley; by Frederick M. Chester; January 1999.
  2. 1 2 3 4 AAPG Datapages/Archives: "Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Type San Francisquito Formation, Southern California"; Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside; 1982.
  3. ↑ Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 8 July 2014.
Preceded by Proterozoic Eon Phanerozoic Eon
Paleozoic Era Mesozoic Era Cenozoic Era
Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Paleogene Neogene 4ry
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