Paleozoic marine rocks, undivided, unit 2 (Northern Mojave Desert and Southeastern Sierra Nevada) (CAPZ2;0)

State	California
Name	Paleozoic marine rocks, undivided, unit 2 (Northern Mojave Desert and Southeastern Sierra Nevada)
Geologic age	Cambrian to Jurassic
Original map label	Pz
Comments	North-central Mojave Desert and southeastern Sierra Nevada. Argillite, chert, phyllite, sandstone, conglomerate, limestone, and quartzite. Includes some rocks of probable Triassic or Jurassic age
Primary rock type	argillite
Secondary rock type	chert
Other rock types	phyllite; sandstone; conglomerate; limestone; quartzite; marble; hornfels; slate; dolostone (dolomite)
Lithologic constituents
Map references	Jennings, C.W., Strand, R.G., and Rogers, T.H., 1977, Geologic map of California: California Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:750,000.
Unit references	Jennings, C.W., Strand, R.G., and Rogers, T.H., 1977, Geologic map of California: California Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:750,000. Jennings, C.W., 1985, An explanatory text to accompany the 1:750,000 scale fault and geologic maps of California: California Division of Mines and Geology, Bulletin 201, 197 p. Jennings, C.W., Burnett, J.L., and Troxel, B.W., 1963, Geologic map of California, Olaf P. Jenkins edition, Trona sheet, scale 1:250,000. Carr, M.D., Christiansen, R.L., Poole, F.G., and Goodge, J.W., 1997, Bedrock geologic map of the El Paso Mountains in the Garlock and El Paso Peaks 7-1/2' quadrangles, Kern County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-2389, 9 p., scale 1:24,000. [http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/i2389] Dunne, G.C., and Suczek, C.A., 1991, Early Paleozoic eugeoclinal strata in the Kern Plateau pendants, southern Sierra Nevada, California, in Cooper, J.D., and Stevens, C.H., eds., Paleozoic paleogeography of the western United States-II: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Book 67, p. 677-692. Silberling, N.J., Jones, D.L., Blake, M.C., Jr., and Howell, D.G., 1987, Lithotectonic terrane map of the western conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1874-C, scale 1:2,500,000. [http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/mf1874C] Carr, M.D., Harris, A.G., Poole, F.G., and Fleck, R.J., 1992, Stratigraphy and structure of Paleozoic outer continental-margin rocks in Pilot Knob Valley, north-central Mojave Desert, California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2015, 33 p., scale 1:24,000. [http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b2015] Miller, E.L., and Sutter, J.F., 1982, Structural geology and 40Ar-39Ar geochronology of the Goldstone-Lane Mountain area, Mojave Desert, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 93, p. 1191-1207. McCulloh, T.H., 1960, Geologic map of the Lane Mountain quadrangle, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 60-95, scale 1:62,500. [http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr6095]
Geographic coverage	Kern - San Bernardino