- Usage in publication:
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- Garner formation
- Modifications:
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- Principal reference
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Fort Worth syncline
Summary:
Pg. 20, fig. 3, pl. 1. Garner formation. Underlies East Mountain formation; overlies Grindstone Creek formation. Type section established; section is chosen where the best and most nearly continuous exposure occurs; approximately basal 45 feet of formation not exposed at type section, and section does not exhibit a thin coal seam or lensing limestones present in other localities. Age is Middle Pennsylvanian. Rank designations suggested by Cheney (1940) are accepted in this paper.
Type section: along the Millsap to Mineral Wells Highway as it ascends scarp 2.5 mi west of Millsap, Parker Co., north-central TX. Named from town of Garner [Parker Co., TX].
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1473).
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