Tick Canyon Formation
| Tick Canyon Formation Stratigraphic range: Lower Miocene |
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| Type | Geologic formation |
| Underlies | Mint Canyon Formation |
| Overlies | Vasquez Formation |
| Thickness | 0–1,000 feet (0–305 m) (average) |
| Location | |
| Region | Sierra Pelona Mountains, Los Angeles County, California |
| Country | United States |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Tick Canyon |
The Tick Canyon Formation is a Miocene epoch geologic formation in the Sierra Pelona Mountains of Los Angeles County, California.
The Tick Canyon Basin drains into the Santa Clara River.
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.
It preserves vertebrate fossils of the Lower Miocene subperiod of the Miocene epoch, in the Neogene Period of the Cenozoic Era.
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