Santa Margarita Formation

Santa Margarita Formation
Stratigraphic range: Neogene
Type Formation
Underlies Chanac Formation
Location
Region San Joaquin Valley, California
Country United States

The Santa Margarita Formation is a Neogene Period geologic formation in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

It preserves fossils dating back to the Miocene epoch.

See also

References

Neogene Period
Miocene Pliocene
Aquitanian | Burdigalian
Langhian | Serravallian
Tortonian | Messinian
Zanclean | Piacenzian


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