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Geologic Unit: Dugout Mountain

Usage:

Dugout Mountain Member of Skinner Ranch Formation (TX*)


Geologic age:

early Permian (Leonardian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: on the north slope of Dugout Mountain along line of King's (Texas Univ. Bull., no. 3038, p. 133, 1931) section 7, Glass Mountains, Brewster Co., western TX (Cooper and Grant, 1966).


AAPG geologic province:

Permian basin*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).