Usage:
No current usage?
(†Paint Rock Limestone (TX) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the TX Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS. Is considered same as Talpa Formation. See Talpa.)
Geologic age:
early Permian (Leonardian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town of Paint Rock, Concho Co., Colorado River region, central TX (Drake, 1893; Sellards, 1933).
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.
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