Tecopa Lake Beds

Tecopa Lake Beds
Stratigraphic range: Pleistocene epoch,
Quaternary period
Type Geologic formation
Lithology
Primary mudstone
Location
Region Mojave Desert,
California
Country United States
Type section
Named for Lake Tecopa (prehistoric)

The Tecopa Lake Beds is a Blancan Pleistocene geologic formation in the Mojave Desert in eastern California. It is in the Tecopa area, east of Death Valley, in southeastern Inyo and northeastern San Bernardino County. [1]

The Lake Tecopa lake beds are the dry lake remnant of the formerly huge Pleistocene age lake, in the present day Amargosa River basin. It preserves fossils of the Quaternary period in the Cenozoic Era. [2]

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References

Quaternary
Pleistocene Holocene
Early | Middle | Late Preboreal | Boreal |
Atlantic | Subboreal | Subatlantic


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