Pg. 387, 410. Parks Mountain bed in Cisco division. Massive sandstone and conglomerate, 10 to 70 feet thick. Member of Cisco division [Cisco is 2nd from top of 5 Carboniferous divisions of Cummins, 1891]. Overlies Lohn bed and underlies Chaffin bed. Age is Pennsylvanian.
[Named from Parks Mountain, Waldrip quadrangle, Coleman Co., Colorado River region, central TX.]
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