zzzzzPg. 149. Scenic Drive formation of El Paso group [author does not capitalize rank terms; however, units are considered formal]. The Cassinian series of Flower (1957, New Mexico Bur. Mines and Mineral Res. Memoir, no. 2, p. 18) contains two formations (1) the Scenic Drive formation, consisting of basal sandy dolomite, sand-free dolomite, and 200 feet of thin-bedded limestones at El Paso (is essentially "B26" of Cloud and Barnes, 1946, Univ. Texas Bur. Econ. Geol. Pub., no. 4621); (2) the Florida formation, 35 feet thick, developed as dark calcarenites in the Florida Mountains (beds designated "C" by Cloud and Barnes). Present in New Mexico and Texas. Age is Early Ordovician (late Canadian; Cassinian). Canadian treated as a system in this report. Author states that his philosophy of nomenclature is contrary to "the present fashion of delimiting formations on lithology alone." The resulting proposed divisions of the El Paso Group are thus "a succession of strata and faunas."
Type locality not designated. Derivation of name not stated, but probably named from Scenic Drive, northeast edge of El Paso, south end of Franklin Mountains, El Paso Co., TX, in the Orogrande basin.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX); US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 673).