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  • Usage in publication:
    • Bexar*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ouachita folded belt
Publication:

Hill, R.T., 1901, Geography and geology of the Black and Grand Prairies, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Annual Report, 21, pt. 7, 666 p. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/ar/ar21_7]


Summary:

Pg. 114. [Bexar used, in table only, for Navarro formation in Guadalupe River section of southern Texas. Age is Late Cretaceous (Gulf). Probably named from Bexar County. Abandoned by the USGS.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 178).


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