Usage:
No current usage?
(†Burnt Branch Bed (TX) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the TX Geol. Survey. Abandoned by the USGS.)
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Burnt Branch, in Lampasas Co. or vicinity, Colorado River region, central TX (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Bend arch
Fort Worth syncline
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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