STATE OF CALIFORNIA - EDMUND G. BROWN JR.

, GOVERNOR
CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE NATURAL RESOURCES AGENCY - JOHN LAIRD, SECRETARY FOR NATURAL RESOURCES
JOHN G. PARRISH, Ph.D., STATE GEOLOGIST DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION - DEREK CHERNOW, ACTING DIRECTOR PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SACRAMENTO 30' x 60' QUADRANGLE, CALIFORNIA

Preliminary Geologic Map available from:

http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/rghm/rgm/preliminary_geologic_maps.htm
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Qr2 Qr2 Qm2 inferred; dotted where concealed; queried where uncertain.
Qhb Qr2 Pl Pl Qoa Jch? 55 45
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Qr2 Qm1 Pl Qha Fault - Solid where accurately located, dashed where
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Holocene
Qr3 }qd Qhc Qhay ? approximately located; short dash where inferred; dotted

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Qr3 Qhb Qhb Qr2 Qha direction and angle of dip of fault plane.

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fan levee deposits
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Alluvial fan deposits Alluvium (undivided)

QUATERNARY
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Qhc

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Ei Qha sp
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Qoa3 10 Qr3 30 50 sp 75
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Qoa 2 Qm2 Qm - Undivided
Qoa2 Qoa4 Qm1 Qr3 Pl Qoa ls Older alluvium
Qr3 Qhb Qr2 30
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Qls Qm Qm2 - Upper member
Qoa1 Qr3 8 Jp
Qr2 t t Qm1 Qm1 - Lower member
Qoa4 Qm1 Qm2 Qr3 t Qoa Qls mvs sp sp Qoa4 Qoa - Undivided Strike and dip of sedimentary beds:
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MPmc Qr3 - Upper unit
Qoa3 Qha MPmc
Qoa2 Qm1 50 Qha sp Qr Qr2 Qoa1 Qoa1 - Unit 1
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Qr1 Qr1 - Lower unit
Strike and dip of foliation:
Jch MPmb 400 sp gb

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Qoa4 Qhb Qr3 Qhb 50 80
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Qr2 Qhb 100 MPmb
Qm2 Qr2 85
MPmb Jch MPmc mv sp

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Jp Qtl Turlock Lake Formation

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Qr3 Pl

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Qr2 Metamorphic foliation, vertical

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Oligocene - Miocene - Pliocene

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10 Qhb MPmc MPmb Qha Mehrten Formation

Qr2 10 Qha Qhb Qr2 MPmc Jch 85 Igneous foliation, vertical
Qha 1 00 MPmc 80 0 gb 400
Qoa3 MPmc 70 gb 30 sa
Qhb 10 MPm - Undivided
Qr2 Qr3 Jp 20
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Qr3 Qhb Qr3 mv sp
Qm1 Qha MPm Strike and dip of joints or fractures in bedrock:
Qoa4 Qha OMvs? MPmb MPmc MPmc - Cobble comglomerate

TERTIARY
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10 0 50 Qr2 Qr3 MPmb MPmb t Qa 80 40 0
Qha Qhb Jp Jp gb
Qm2 Qr2 30 Qtl py gb ms OMvs Valley Springs Formation Joint, vertical
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CRETACEOUS
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Qha

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Qoa4 MPmc OMvs 00 Jp Chico Formation
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Qr2 Qha Qoa 75
Qoa ms 85
Qoa1 Qr3 MPmc Qoa sa py mv
Qoa4 Qhc Qoa4 30 100 50
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Qha Qoa3 70
Qha 30 Qr3 MPmb OMvs MPmc Ei 85
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Qoa4 MPmb Copper Hill Volcanics Quartz dorite, undivided
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Qhb Qhb Qr3 30 pg py Salt Spring Slate
Qoa1 50 Qr2 Qr3 0 80 75 75 Jss
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MPmb Ei mv pg

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MPmc MPmb 80

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Qoa4 30 Qr3 Qoa 2, 9, 10, 12, 13
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Jch

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Qhb gb mv - Metavolcanic rock
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Qha Qr2 50 af sp - Serpentine and peridotite
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Qhb Qha Qoa3
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Qoa1 Qoa4 sa - Serpentine and amphibole, interlayered
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Qr2 MPm 0 af 73 py - Pyroxenite and metapyroxenite
Qhc

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Qhb 1 00 Qa SOURCES OF MAP DATA
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Qoa4 t (See pamphlet for complete references)

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mv 1. Bartow, J.A. and Helley, E.J., 1979, Preliminary geologic map of Cenozoic deposits of the 9. Kohler, S.L., 1983, Mineral Land Classification of the Auburn 15-minute Quadrangle, El Dorado
Qoa3 10
Qr2 Jss mv
t
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Qoa3 Qoa1 Qoa1 Qoa3 t Folsom area, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-550, scale 1:62,500. and Placer Counties, California: California Department of Conservation, Division of Mines

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Qoa3 Qha
Qoa4 MPm 2. Bartow, J.A. and Helley, E.J., 1979, Preliminary geologic map of Cenozoic deposits of the and Geology Open-File Report 83-37, 48 p., scale 1:48,000.

0
50 t gb
t Auburn quadrangle, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-386, scale 10. Livingston, J.G., 1976, Handbook of environmental geology: Placer County, California:

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Pth Qoa4 Qr 1 00
Qr2

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Jss

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Qoa3 MPm 1:62,500. Unpublished report prepared for Placer County Planning Department (includes 21
Pl Pl?

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30 0
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Qoa3

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Qhb Pth 3. Behrman, P.G., 1978, Paleogeography and structural evolution of a middle Mesozoic volcanic 1:24,000-scale geologic maps).
Qoa1 Pl 30 Qm?

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30
Qha
t 30 30
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arc-continental margin, Sierra Nevada foothills, California: University of California, Berkeley, 11. Loyd, R.C., 1984, Mineral Land Classification of the Folsom 15-minute Quadrangle,
gb

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Qoa4 30 MPm 0
Pth Qr2 Ph.D. dissertation, 301 p. Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer and Amador Counties, California: California Department of

30 0
30
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Qha t Jss 4. Clark, L.D. and Huber, N.K., 1975, Geologic observations and sections along selected stream Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 84-50, 44 p., scale
Ei? Jss

30
Pth 30
t traverses, northern Sierra Nevada metamorphic belt, California: U.S. Geological Survey 1:48,000.

0
Qha Pl 88
Qoa3 Qr
Qoa3
Qha Qr2 t Ei Ei Qa
Jss Jss 60 Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-690, scale 1:62,500. 12. Olmsted, F.H., 1971, Pre-Cenozoic geology of the south half of the Auburn 15-minute
MPm
10

20
0 5. Department of Water Resources Bulletin 118-3, 1974, Evaluation of Groundwater Resources, Quadrangle, California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1341, 30 p., scale 1:48,000.
30
Qha

50
Qoa1 Qha Pl
72 Sacramento County: Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, 139 p., approximate 13. Springer, R.K., 1980, Geology of the Pine Hill intrusive complex, a layered gabbroic body in

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Qhb Pth Qr2 Pl scale 1:100,000. the western Sierra Nevada foothills, California: GSA Bulletin, v. 91, no. 7, p. 381-385.

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Qoa3 10
Qoa3
10

t t Qa Jch
Qoa3 gb
85 6. Graymer, R.W., Jones, D.L., Brabb, E.E., 2002, Geologic map and map database of 14. Taylor, G.C., 1979, Geologic reconnaissance of the north half of the Auburn 15-minute

2 00
100
Pth Qoa3 Qha Qoa4
Qoa4 MPm 88 northeastern San Francisco Bay region, California, [including] most of Solano County and quadrangle: California Division of Mines and Geology, unpublished report and map for State

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Qa parts of Napa, Marin, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Sacramento, Yolo, and Sonoma Map Project, scale 1:24,000.
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Pth Qha Qhb Jss

Qoa1 Pth 10 sp Counties: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2403. 15. Tierra Engineering Consultants, Inc., 1983, Geologic and seismologic investigations of the
Qhb Qhc Qa 75
Qhb Qoa1 Qha Qha Jss 7. Helley, E.J. and Harwood, D.S., 1985, Geologic map of the Late Cenozoic deposits of the Folsom, California area: Unpublished report prepared for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Qoa4 t

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Qoa3 Qa Ei gb t

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Sacramento Valley and northern Sierran foothills, California: U.S. Geological Survey under Contract No. DACW05-82-C-0042.

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10

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Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1790, scale 1:62,500.

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Qoa4 Qoa4 Qoa3 Qa 8. Knudsen, K.L., Sowers, J.M., Witter, R.C., Wentworth, C.M., and Helley, E.J., 2000,
Pth Qoa3 Qha Qm2 82
Qha Qha Qr3 71
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Qoa4 Qa Kc 84 Preliminary maps of Quaternary deposits and liquefaction susceptibility, nine-county San
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Francisco Bay Region: a digital database: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-444.
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Base Map SCALE 1:100,000 Geology compiled 2009 -2011 113

(Healdsburg)

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2 0 2 4 6 Miles
Topographic base from USGS Sacramento 30'x60' This geologic map was funded in part by Roseville
quadrangle, 1994. Shaded relief base from U.S.G.S. the U.S. Geological Survey National Sutter County Folsom Lake
digital elevation models (DEM's). 2 0 2 4 6 Kilometers Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program,
Placer County
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Projection: UTM, zone 10, North American Datum 1927. STATEMAP Award no. G10AC00414.
Contour Interval: 20 meters (approximately 66 feet) MADISON WOODLAND
GRAYS TAYLOR RIO CITRUS
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