Usage:
Capps Limestone [unranked] in Strawn Group (TX)
Capps Limestone Member of Mineral Wells Formation of Strawn Group (TX*)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Typical exposure found west of schoolhouse, 2.5 mi southeast of Brownwood and 2 mi west of Pecan Bayou, Brown Co., TX. Named from Capps Farm, 3 mi east of Brownwood, Brown Co., [Colorado River Valley area], TX (Plummer and Moore, 1922).
AAPG geologic province:
Bend arch*
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