Usage:
Big Saline Member of Marble Falls Limestone (TX)
Big Saline Formation of Bend Group (TX)
Big Saline Formation of Marble Falls Group (TX)
Big Saline Group (TX)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical): De Leon Formation (TX), Sipe Springs Formation (TX).
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical): Aylor Member (TX), Brister Limestone Member (TX), Brook Ranch Member (TX), Gibbons Conglomerate Member (TX), Lemons Bluff Member (TX), Soldiers Limestone Member (TX).
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: near mouth of Big Saline Creek in eastern Kimble Co., north-central TX (Cheney, 1940).
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 3,760 to 4,132 ft, Roxana Petroleum Company Seaman No. 1 test well, northwestern Palo Pinto Co., north-central TX (Cheney, 1940).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin
Llano uplift
Bend arch
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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