Type Geologic formation Overlies Mehrten Formation | Country United States Underlies Riverbank Formation | |
Primary Granitic sand over stratified silt Region Sacramento County, California | ||
The Turlock Lake Formation is an Early Pleistocene geologic formation in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Sacramento County, California. Cities in/over the formation's area include Citrus Heights, Carmichael, and Roseville.
The Turlock Lake Formation is a fan deposit of dominantly granitic alluvium covering the westward extension of the North Merced Pediment and Gravels formation, and directly overlying the Mehrten Formation.
It preserves Early Pleistocene Quaternary period fossils.
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