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Tejon Formation
Stratigraphic range: Paleogene
TypeFormation
UnderliesIone Formation (regionally)
OverliesMartinez Formation (regionally),
Chico Formation (regionally)
Thickness2,100–2,300 feet (640–700 m)
Lithology
Primaryconglomerate, shale
Location
RegionCalifornia
CountryUnited States
Type section
Named forFort Tejon

The Tejon Formation is a Paleogene period geologic formation in California.

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Tejon Formation

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The Tejon Formation is a Paleogene period geologic formation in California. The formation regionally overlies the Martinez Formation or the Chico Formation...

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Martinez Formation

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overlies the Chico Formation and regionally underlies the Tejon Formation or the Ione Formation. It is exposed in the Clevelin Hills in Riverside County...

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Chico Formation

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formation can regionally overlie the Vaqueros Formation, and can regionally underlie the Martinez Formation or Tejon Formation. The Chico Formation is...

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Moreno Formation

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The Moreno Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation located in San Joaquin Valley (California). Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among...

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Cowlitz Formation

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Washington. Along with the Cowlitz Formation, they also closely observed the Tejon Formation. These two formations are a part of a greater Eocene of Western...

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Cozy Dell Shale

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resistant Matilija and Coldwater formations. The Cozy Dell was first described in 1928 as the middle member of the Tejon Formation. However, Dibblee (1966) reclassified...

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in California

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Formation Paleogene Tassajara Formation Neogene Tecopa Lake Beds Formation Tecuya Formation Tejon Formation Paleogene Temblor Formation Neogene, Paleogene Temecula...

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Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass

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The Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass, or the Frazier Mountain Communities, in the San Emigdio Mountains is a region of California that includes...

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San Andreas Fault

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Lake Road to the town of Elizabeth Lake. As it passes the towns of Gorman, Tejon Pass and Frazier Park, the fault begins to bend northward, forming the "Big...

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Plush Ranch Formation

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Miocene (Arikareean in the NALMA classification). The formation is the oldest non-marine unit of the Tejon region where the small Plush Ranch Basin is formed...

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Chanac Formation

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The Chanac Formation is a Cenozoic Era sandstone geologic formation in the southeastern San Joaquin Valley, within Kern County, California. The Kern River...

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Transverse Ranges

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and were uplifted by tectonic movements late in the Cenozoic Era. West of Tejon Pass, the primary rock types are varied, with a mix of sedimentary, volcanic...

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Devils Postpile National Monument

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Eastern California. The monument protects Devils Postpile, an unusual rock formation of columnar basalt, "all closely and perfectly fitted together like a...

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Ido

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2013). La Princeto (in Ido). Translated by Fernando Tejón. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2018...

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Mount Pinos

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County. The mountain is the highest point of the Transverse Ranges west of Tejon Pass, as well as the southernmost point of the Salinian Block. Mount Pinos...

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Turris plicata

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1917. Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences...

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Lassen Volcanic National Park

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(volcanic-derived mud flows) in the Pliocene which became the Tuscan Formation. This formation is not exposed anywhere in the national park but it is just below...

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Sierra Pelona Ridge

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Fault. Toward the southeast lie Vasquez Rocks, thrust up by the fault. The Tejon Pass separates the Sierra Pelonas, the San Emigdios, the Tehachapis, and...

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Santa Clarita Valley

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through Soledad Pass to the northeast; the San Joaquin Valley via I-5 through Tejon Pass to the northwest, and Leona Valley via San Francisquito and Bouquet...

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United States Camel Corps

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the skills to control a foreign asset. One of the male animals at Fort Tejon was killed by another male during rutting season. Lieutenant Sylvester Mowry...

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Raccoon

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likely Procyon rexroadensis, a large Blancan raccoon from the Rexroad Formation characterized by its narrow back teeth and large lower jaw. As of 2005...

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San Francisquito Canyon

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did the Butterfield Overland Mail in California from 1858 to 1861. This Tejon Pass Route and the Tehachapi or Midway Route (first followed by the Southern...

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Los Angeles

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about the next "big one", as the last major earthquake was the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake. The Los Angeles basin and metropolitan area are also at risk...

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1952 Kern County earthquake

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affected the area as well, like the January 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake that severely affected Fort Tejon (about 15 miles (24 km) south of Wheeler Ridge). The...

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