Usage:
No current usage.
(†Bingen Sand or †Bingen Formation (AR,LA,OK) replaced with Woodbine Sand and Tokio Formation. See Woodbine and Tokio.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Gulfian Provincial Epoch)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures near Bingen, Hemstead Co., southwestern AR (Hill, 1888).
AAPG geologic province:
Arkla basin
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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