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Geologic Unit: Brook Ranch

Usage:

Brook Ranch Member of Big Saline Formation (TX)
Also called Brook Lentil of Big Saline Formation in some reports.


Geologic age:

Middle Pennsylvanian


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

Along abandoned highway, 3.5 mi south and 1 mi east of Brady, and 0.75 mi northwest of Brook Ranch headquarters, McCulloch Co., central TX (Plummer, 1950).


AAPG geologic province:

Llano uplift
Permian basin


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

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