The San Francisquito Formation is a geologic formation located in northern Los Angeles County, California.[1][2]
Areas where it is exposed include: San Francisquito Canyon of the Sierra Pelona Mountains, as well as on the northwestern side of the Devil's Punchbowl gorge in the San Gabriel Mountains.[1][2]
^ abSeismo.berkeley.edu: Field Guide to the Punchbowl Fault Zone, at Devil's Punchbowl Los Angeles County Park; San Andreas Fault Resources; University of California, Berkeley; by Frederick M. Chester; January 1999.
^ abAAPG Datapages/Archives: "Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Type San Francisquito Formation, Southern California"; Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside; 1982.
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part of the fault was Clemens Well-Fenner-SanFrancisquito fault zone around 22–13 Ma. This system added the San Gabriel Fault as a primary focus of movement...
crystalline San Gabriel Basement Complex in its eastern section, and the SanFrancisquitoFormation in its western section in the Antelope Valley/San Gabriels...
and Searsville Lake (actually a reservoir) and the upper reaches of SanFrancisquito Creek, along with the latter's Corte Madera Creek and Bear Creek tributaries...
1924. Kooser, Marilyn Ann. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the SanFrancisquitoFormation, Transverse Ranges, California. University of California, Riverside...
Angeles. Mulholland then made the decision to move the reservoir to SanFrancisquito Canyon above what is now Santa Clarita, California. The resulting St...
whorls of five juveniles of Hoploscaphites comprimus from the Fox Hills Formation (South Dakota, United States), is published by Linzmeier et al. (2018)...
Paleogene SanFrancisquitoFormation Paleogene, Cretaceous San Joaquin Formation Neogene San Lorenzo Formation Paleogene San Lorenzo Group/Pleito Formation Paleogene...
homelands. The SanFrancisquito Canyon, which runs north-south through the mountains, served as a major wagon route between the Antelope and San Fernando Valleys...
reservoir's 12.4 billion gallons (47 million m3) of water began moving down SanFrancisquito Canyon in a 140-foot-high (43 m) torrent at 18 miles per hour (29 km/h)...
in upper Carmel Valley along Tularcitos Creek. Rancho SanFrancisquito Rancho SanFrancisquito was a 8,813-acre (35.66 km2) land grant given in 1835 by...
via I-5 through Tejon Pass to the northwest, and Leona Valley via SanFrancisquito and Bouquet canyons. Downstream lies the Santa Clara River Valley,...
by 22 member cities in the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys. It operates a fixed-route bus public transit service in the San Gabriel Valley region of eastern...
process of designing and building the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a section of SanFrancisquito Canyon located north of the present day Santa Clarita Valley, and built...
quartz diorite and granodiorite. Both formations have been disrupted and tectonically slivered by motion on the San Andreas and associated fault systems...
to up to 8 feet of depth. Two other reservoirs, Searsville Lake on SanFrancisquito Creek and Felt Lake, are on more remote sections of the founding grant...
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