Friars Formation

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| type = Geologic formation

| age = Eocene

| period = Eocene

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| namedfor =Friars Road

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| region = San Diego County, California

| country = United States

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| unitof = La Jolla Group

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| underlies =Stadium Conglomerate

| overlies = Scripps Formation

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The Friars Formation is a geologic formation in San Diego County, California.{{cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Michael P. |date=1975 |title=Geology of the San Diego metropolitan area, California |url=https://archive.org/details/geologyofsandieg00kennrich |publisher=California Division of Mines and Geology }}[http://www.geiconsultants.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/0/3aaf5188d802ff649166ba80c318e433/download/geologic_formations_of_western_san_diego.pdf Geiconsultants.com: Geologic Formations of Western San Diego County]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, by Jeffrey D. Brown, R.G., C.E.G. − circa 1996.

Geology

It is the uppermost unit of the La Jolla Group. The rocks are nonmarine and lagoonal sandstone and claystone, named for exposures along the north side of Mission Valley near Friars Road.

It reaches a maximum thickness of {{convert|50|m|ft}} between Mission Valley and Carmel Valley.

=Fossils=

It preserves fossils dating back to the middle and late Eocene epoch of the Paleogene period, during the Cenozoic Era.{{cite web|title= Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database|author= ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database))|url= https://www.fossilworks.org|access-date= 17 December 2021|archive-date= 25 March 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220325060448/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=home|url-status= live}}

Friars Formation

Geology

=Fossils=

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