Usage:
Adams Branch Limestone Member of Graford Formation of Canyon Group (TX*)
Adams Branch Limestone Member of Brookesmith Formation of Canyon Group (TX)
Adams Branch Limestone of Canyon Group (TX)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (early Missourian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: along headwaters of Adams Branch, close to town of Brownwood, Brown Co., Colorado River region, central TX (Drake, 1893; US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Bend arch*
Fort Worth syncline
Llano uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).