Usage:
Dozier Sandstone Member of Rush Springs Formation of Whitehorse Group (TX*)
Misspelled Dosier in early reports.
Geologic age:
Middle Permian (Guadalupian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures on western side of "Dozier Mountains," east of Mr. Caperton's place (then Dozier Post Office), 15 mi south or southwest of Shamrock, Collingsworth Co., TX Panhandle (Beede, 1907).
AAPG geologic province:
Anadarko basin*
Palo Duro basin*
Permian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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