Usage:
Burnam Limestone (TX*)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Midway between Austin and Llano, along Burnam Branch of Doublehorn Creek, southern Burnet Co., 4.7 mi airline south-southeast of Marble Falls, central TX. Type locality is only known occurrence (Barnes and others, 1953).
AAPG geologic province:
Llano uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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