Usage:
Bowie Group (TX)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in TX: Archer City Formation, Markley Formation.
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) to early Permian (Wolfcampian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Each formation in Bowie Group is assigned a stratotype representing either (a) one or several fluviogenic cycles or (b) the general lithology of a noncyclic sequence (Hentz, 1988).
AAPG geologic province:
Bend arch
Fort Worth syncline
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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