Type Geologic formation | Overlies Vasquez Formation Named for Tick Canyon Parent range Sierra Pelona Mountains | |
Thickness 0–1,000 feet (0–305 m) (average) Region Sierra Pelona Mountains, Los Angeles County, California | ||
The Tick Canyon Formation is a Miocene epoch geologic formation in the Sierra Pelona Mountains of Los Angeles County, California.
Contents
The Tick Canyon Basin drains into the Santa Clara River.
Geology
The formation was deposited on land mostly by streams and consists of green sandstone, coarse-grained conglomerates, and red claystone. It has an average thickness of 600 feet (180 m).
The formation overlies the Oligocene Period Vasquez Formation, and underlies the Upper Miocene Mint Canyon Formation.
North of the Tick Canyon fault, the beds are almost vertical.
Fossils
It preserves vertebrate fossils of the Lower Miocene subperiod of the Miocene epoch, in the Neogene Period of the Cenozoic Era.
References
Tick Canyon Formation Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA