Usage:
China Tank Member of Word Formation (TX*)
Geologic age:
middle Permian (Guadalupian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: west side of hill 5611, just east of the fault that bounds Hess Ranch horst in west-central Hess Canyon quadrangle, Glass Mountains, TX. Named from China Tank, a cattle tank on Hess Ranch (Cooper and Grant, 1966).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin*
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