GRD02GSS0

W77-242

Claystone

Mesozoic › Cretaceous › Late Cretaceous
65.5 - 99.6

1

Camp Elliott

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Silicified red clay with white lenticular beds. Small sample. Original label: Arg-unit, Calera.

Ophiolite and Melange sequence

Point Sal, Atascadero- Cayucos

California
Point Sal

N/A

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scan

crossed

GRD02GST0: Silicified red clay with occasional ghosts of radiolarians. White lenses. (R. Norris)

N/A

Tarduno_Nature_1985
Tarduno, J.A., McWilliams, M., Debiche, M.G., Sliter, W.V., Blake, M.C., 1985, Franciscan Complex Calera limestones: accreted remnants of Farallon Plate oceanic plateaus: Letters to Nature, v. 317, p. 345-347.