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Geologic Unit: Bluff Dale

Usage:

Bluff Dale Sand of Trinity Group (TX)


Geologic age:

Early Cretaceous (Comanchean Provincial Epoch)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from Bluff Dale, Erath Co., central northern TX, where the sands supply artesian wells (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).


AAPG geologic province:

Strawn basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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