Where the Phantom Trail meets Mulholland Hwy., the upper Miocene Monterey Formation contains thick sandstone beds. These sandstone beds contain sedimentary structures indicative of deposition by turbidity currents and submarine slides in rather deep ocean water. Where sandstone and shale beds are intermixed like this, the rock unit is commonly called the Modelo Formation.
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