• Source: Punchbowl Formation

The Punchbowl Formation is a sedimentary sandstone geologic formation in the northern San Gabriel Mountains, above the Antelope Valley in Los Angeles County, southern California.




Geology


The sandstone beds of the formation are exposed in the walls of the Devil's Punchbowl, a scenic gorge within the Devil's Punchbowl Natural Area, an L.A. County park within the Angeles National Forest. Three separate faults have folded and uplifted the formation in view. The Devil's Punchbowl is a large plunging sandstone syncline, where the edges of the formation have been folded upward, and the center has dipped. It was formed by the Punchbowl Fault, which is near the San Andreas Fault to the north.
The Punchbowl Formation crops out in the Punchbowl Block and comprises approximately 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) of fluvial and alluvial conglomerates, sandstones, and minor mudstones, which accumulated during the middle-late Miocene. A distinct basal member is middle Miocene in age. The underlying Paradise Springs and Vasquez Formations were formerly interpreted as either part of the basal Punchbowl Formation, or deposits in a fault-bounded sliver along the Punchbowl Fault that originated in a separate basin.
The Devil's Punchbowl drainage flows into Sandrock Creek, a tributary of Big Rock Creek, which disappears into the Mojave Desert.




Fossil content


The uplifted formation preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period of the Cenozoic geologic era, formed during the lower Pliocene to upper Miocene Ages (~5-10 million years ago).




= Mammals

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Artiodactyls




Perissodactyls




Carnivora




Rodents

Petauristodon sp.
Sciuridae indet.




= Reptiles

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Turtles

Gopherus depressus




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See also






References






= Bibliography

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Coffey, Kevin T.; Ingersoll, Raymond V.; Schmitt, Axel K. (2019), "Stratigraphy, provenance, and tectonic significance of the Punchbowl block, San Gabriel Mountains, California, USA", Geosphere, 15 (2): 479–501, Bibcode:2019Geosp..15..479C, doi:10.1130/GES02025.1
Pagnac, D (2006), "Scaphohippus, a new genus of horse (Mammalia: Equidae) from the Barstow Formation of California", Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 13: 37–61, doi:10.1007/s10914-005-9002-2
Woodburne, M. O (2005), "A new occurrence of Cormohipparion, with implications for the Old World Hippotherium Datum", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25: 256–257, doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0256:ANOOCW]2.0.CO;2
Liter, M.; Prothero, D. (2003), "New dromomerycids (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the middle Miocene Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, California, and the systematics of the cranioceratinins", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23: 72A
Wagner, H. M.; Reynolds, R. E. (1983), "Leptarctus ancipidens (White) (Carnivora: Mammalia) from the Punchbowl Formation, Cajon Pass, California", Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 82: 131–137
Woodburne, M. O.; Golz, D. J. (1972), "Stratigraphy of the Punchbowl Formation, Cajon Valley, southern California", University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, 92: 1–72




External links



Los Angeles County: Devil's Punchbowl Natural Area website
Devil's Punchbowl photos gallery — geology + flora

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• Punchbowl Formation
• Devil's Punchbowl (Angeles National Forest)
• San Francisquito Formation
• Crowder Formation
• Tick Canyon Formation
• Mint Canyon Formation
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in California
• Gopherus
• Devil's Punch Bowl
• Diligencia Formation