Usage:
Briggs Formation (TX*)
Geologic age:
early Permian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Briggs switch [later called Gypsum] on Southern Pacific RR, [along southern edge Finlay Mountains 15-min quadrangle, 1943 ed.], Hudspeth Co., Malone Mountains area, west-central TX (Albritton, 1937).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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