- Usage in publication:
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- Wild Cherry Formation
- Modifications:
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- Areal extent
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Permian basin
Summary:
Wild Cherry Formation mapped alone and as Wild Cherry-Barrel Springs (undivided) in the Davis Mountains area, Jeff Davis and Presidio Cos, west TX in the Permian basin. Where mapped alone, consists of (from top down): indurated to friable, fine-grained vitric tuff; foliated, porphyritic rhyolite; black, foliated vitrophyre. Thickness 355 ft at type locality--thins southward. Mapped with Barrel Springs where Mount Locke Formation is absent and the remaining formations become similar in appearance. [Unclear on Correlation of Map Units if Wild Cherry or Wild Cherry-Barrel Springs is part of Vieja Group.] [Author states that correlation of volcanic rocks from area to area on Marfa sheet is uncertain--little attempt is made to correlate between areas. The rocks are described by area.] Of Oligocene age. Geologic map.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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