The Tick Canyon Formation (Tt) or Tick Canyon strata, is an Early Miocene geologic formation in the Sierra Pelona Ridge of the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, California. Elsmerecanyon.com: "Tick Canyon Geology"
The Tick Canyon Basin drains into the Santa Clara River."Geologic Map of the Mint Canyon Quadrangle" (DF-57) by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr., 1996
Geology The formation overlies the Oligocene to Lower Miocene Vasquez Formation, and underlies the Upper Miocene Mint Canyon Formation.
The Tick Canyon strata was deposited on land mostly by streams and consists of green sandstones, coarse-grained conglomerates, and red claystones. Caltech.edu: THESIS - "Geology of the Upper Tick Canyon area, California"; Birman, Joseph Harold; 1950.Caltech.edu: THESIS - "Geology of the Mint Canyon area, Los Angeles County, California"; Holser, William T.; 1946 The Tick Canyon strata also contain abundant volcanic clasts, most of which resemble volcanic rocks of the Vasquez Formation.Coffey et al., 2019, p.481 It has an average thickness of .
North of the Tick Canyon Fault, the beds are almost vertical.
Fossil content It preserves vertebrate fossils of the Lower Miocene subperiod of the Miocene epoch, in the Neogene Period of the Cenozoic Era.Tick Canyon at Fossilworks.org
Mammals Artiodactyls Miolabis californicus Merychyus calaminthusLander & Lindsay, 2011 M. minimusWhistler, 1967 Perissodactyls Parahippus maxsoniJahns, 1940 Parahippus sp.Maxson, 1930 Rodents Archaeolagus acaricolusDawson, 1958 Trogomys rupinimenthaeReeder, 1960
Birds Falconiformes Miohierax stockiHoward, 1944
See also
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in California Paleontology in California Goliad Formation Plush Ranch Formation Punchbowl Formation Shoal River Formation
References
Bibliography
Further reading Geology of Tick Canyon, by Ygnacio Bonillas, 1933 Geology of the Upper Tick Canyon Area, by Albert Hedden, 1948 Geology of the Upper Tick Canyon Area, by Joseph Birman, 1950 Geology of the Upper Tick Canyon Area, by Carel Otte Jr., 1950