Usage:
No current usage.
(†Big House Chalk of Austin Group (TX) considered invalid. Replaced with Pflugerville Formation of Austin Group. See Pflugerville.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Coniacian to early Campanian; Gulfian Provincial Epoch, Austinian Provincial Age)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality not stated. Occurs in type section of Austin Group, in vicinity of Austin, Williamson Co., central eastern TX (Murray, 1961, citing Durham, 1957, unpub. PhD dissert., Columbia Univ.).
AAPG geologic province:
Ouachita folded belt
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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