Usage:
No current usage.
(†Black Prairie Series (AR,TX) abandoned. Is same as Gulfian Provincial Series. See Gulfian.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Gulfian Provincial Epoch)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Black Prairie of eastern TX and AR defined by R.T. Hill in Amer. Jour. Sci., 3rd ser., v. 33, p. 294, 1887.
AAPG geologic province:
Arkla basin
East Texas basin
Ouachita folded belt
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).