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- Gatesville formation
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- Original reference
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Strawn basin
Summary:
Pg. 1508, 1530, 1531-1533. Gatesville formation of Fredericksburg group. Edwards limestone, Comanche Peak limestone, and Walnut clay of Fredericksburg group are in part contemporaneous with one another and contain essentially same fauna. They are here treated as members of Gatesville formation, new name for lower part of Fredericksburg group, the Kiamichi clay being upper formation of that group. [It is still a debated question whether Kiamichi should be included in Fredericksburg group.] Age is Early Cretaceous (Comanche).
Type locality: near State Training School for Boys, north of Gatesville, Coryell Co., north-central TX.
[Usefulness of Gatesville questioned; see Mendenhall (p. 1537, this volume) entry under Fredericksburg.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 775-776; 807; 837-838).
- Usage in publication:
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- Gatesville formation
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- Overview
Summary:
Pg. 3 (fig. 2), 5-6. Gatesville formation of Fredericksburg group. Mentioned in symposium on Edwards limestone in central Texas. Age is Early Cretaceous (Comanche).
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1481).
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