Usage:
No current usage?
(†Agua Verde Shale Member of †Fayette Formation (TX) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the TX Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS.)
Geologic age:
Eocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type locality not designated.] Named from the Agua Verde ranch house which is shown on the north line of Escobares quadrangle, [Zapata Co.], southern TX (Patterson, 1942).
AAPG geologic province:
Gulf Coast basin
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