Usage:
Big Bend Park Group (TX)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in TX: Canoe Formation, Chisos Formation, South Rim Formation.
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene to Oligocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Big Bend National Park, Brewster Co., southwestern TX (Maxwell and Hazzard, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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