Usage:
No current usage?
(†/Apache Limestone (TX-recognized locally in Culberson Co.) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the TX Geol. Survey. Abandoned by the USGS.)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Apache Group by Ransome (1903) in AZ.]
Geologic age:
Middle Permian (Guadalupian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in Apache Mountains, southeastern Culberson Co., western TX (Crandall, 1929).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin
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