Usage:
No current usage.
(†Barton Creek Limestone (TX) is synonym of Edwards Limestone. See Edwards.)
Geologic age:
late Early Cretaceous (Albian; Comanchean Provincial Epoch)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures on Barton Creek [near Austin] above the ford; also in high bluffs of the Colorado at and opposite Johnson's quarry; also in west bluff of Mount Bonnel, Travis Co., central eastern TX (Hill and Penrose, 1889).
AAPG geologic province:
Ouachita folded belt
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