A phosphate occurrence located in road cuts along the main road on the N side of the Carmel Valley, 11 miles E of Carmel.
References
Reed, Ralph Daniel (1927), Phosphate beds in the Monterey shales (abstract): Geological Society of America Bulletin: 38: 195-196.
Galliher, Edgar Wayne (1931), Collophane from Miocene brown shales of California American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin: 15: 257-269; […(abstract): Geol. Zentralbl., Band 45: 163 (1931)]: 266.
Rogers, Austin Flint (1944) Pellet phosphorite from Carmel Valley, Monterey County, California. California Division of Mines Report 40: 411.
Hart, E.W. (1966) Mines and mineral resources of Monterey County, California. California Division Mines and Geology County Report 5, 142 pp.: 81, 134.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 316.
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