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Geologic Unit: Caddo Pool

Usage:

Caddo Pool Formation of Kickapoo Creek Group (TX-subsurface)
Caddo Pool Formation of Smithwick Group (TX-subsurface)


Geologic age:

Middle Pennsylvanian


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

Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 3,820 to 3,960 ft, Anzac Oil Corp. et al E.S. Graham No. 1 well, in Allen Hines Survey, Abstract 135, central Young Co., north-central TX. Discovery well of Caddo Pool of eastern Stephens Co. was completed in this black limestone which is colloquially known as the "Caddo lime"; hence the name (Cheney, 1940).


AAPG geologic province:

Bend arch
Permian basin


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