Usage:
Childress Dolomite [unranked] in Whitehorse Group (TX*-local)
Childress Dolomite [unranked] in Whitehorse Sandstone (TX*-local)
Recognized locally in Eastern Shelf area, north-central TX.
Geologic age:
Middle Permian (Guadalupian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from outcrops in and around Childress, Childress Co., [Panhandle of TX] (Lloyd and Thompson, 1929).
AAPG geologic province:
Palo Duro basin*
Permian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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