Carrizo Badlands Folded Olla Formation

Carrizo Badlands Elsinore Fault
Name:Folded Olla Formation
Date:10/27/2006
Location:Canyon Sin Nombre

Geologist set to scale; Near the Elsinore strike slip fault, are these folded beds of Pleistocene sedimentation. The Olla—Spanish, translated, pot—Formation is composed of light-gray to olive-gray sandstones, biotite rich siltstone, and dark olive siltstone and clay stones, and is some two-hundred meters thick to zero meters where it contacts the Canebrake Formation and the Arroyo Diablo formation. Besides the geologic importance of this formation, it looks cool. (Cassiliano, 2002)


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