The Lindavista Formation was named by Hanna (1926) for exposures at the Lindavista railroad siding in the La Jolla quadrangle (Lat 32" 53' N.; Long 1 17" 1 1 ' W.). The formation consists of nearshore marine and nonmarine sediments deposited on a 10 kilometer-wide wave-cut platform (Lindavista Terrace of Hanna, 1926) following the deposition of the middle or late Pliocene San Diego Formation (Hertlein and Grant, 1944) and prior to the deposition of the fossiliferous late Pleistocene (Sangamon) Bay Point Formation (Kern, 1971). A molluscan fauna from the Lindavista Formation, including the extinct species Pecten bellus, not known from the late Pleistocene, suggests an early Pleistocene or late Pliocene age for these rocks (G. Kennedy, 1973). The Lindavis ta Formation is predominantly composed of moderate reddishbrown interbedded sandstone and conglomerate. Ferruginous cement, mainly hematite, gives the Lin - davis ta Formation its characteris tic color and a resistant nature. Both the coarse-grained and fine-grained rocks of the Lindavista Formation have been largely derived from the older sedimentary rocks within the §an Diego embayment. Where iron staining, so common to the Lindavista Formation, extends downward into the underlying Eocene rocks, the two become difficult to differentiate.

Source - Geology of the eastern San Diego metropolitan area, California (Del Mar, La Jolla, Point Loma, La Mesa, Poway, and SW 1/4 Escondido quadrangles), 1975, California Div. Mines and Geol. Bull. 200, Section A, by Michael P. Kennedy

Lindavista overlying Torrey Sandstone. Source Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve	Concretions from Lindavista Formation. Source Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve
Lindavista Formation exposed in escavation . Source SDNHM: Geologic history in our backyard	Lindavista Formation Conglomerate

References

Hanna, M.A., 1926, Geology of the La Jolla quadrangle, California: University of California, Dept. Geol. Sci. Bull., v. 16, p. 1 87-246.
Hertlein, L.G., and Grant, U.S., IV, 1944, The geology and paleontology of the marine Pliocene of San Diego, California, pt. 1, Geo.logy: San Diego Soc. Nat. History Mem., v. 2, p. 1-72
Kennedy, G.L., 1973, Early Pleistocene lnvertebrate Faunule from the Lindavista Formation, San Diego, California: San Diego Soc. Nat. History Transactions, v. 17, p. 119-128.
Kern, J.P., 1971, Paleoenvironmental analysis of a late Pleistocene estuary in southern California: Journal Paleo., V. 45, p. 810-823