Tecopa Lake Beds

Tecopa Lake Beds Stratigraphic range: , Quaternary period
Type	Geologic formation
Lithology
Primary	mudstone
Location
Region	Mojave Desert, California
Country	United States
Type section
Named for	Lake Tecopa (prehistoric)

The Tecopa Lake Beds is a Blancan geologic formation in the Mojave Desert in eastern California. It is in the Tecopa area, east of Death Valley, in southeastern Inyo and northeastern San Bernardino County.

The Lake Tecopa lake beds are the dry lake remnant of the formerly huge Pleistocene age lake, in the present day Amargosa River basin. It preserves fossils of the Quaternary period in the Cenozoic Era.