Age, stratigraphy, and correlations of the late neogene Purisima formation, central California coast ranges

US Geological Survey Professional Paper

Volumn , Issue 1740, 2007, Pages 1-32

  Powell II, Charles L ^a   Barron, John A ^a   Sarna Wojcicki, Andrei M ^a   Clark, Joseph C ^b   Perry, Frank A ^c   Brabb, Earl E ^d   Fleck, Robert J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Santa Cruz City Mueum   (United States)

^d NONE

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BACILLARIOPHYTA; COLUMBA; MOLLUSCA;

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