Usage:
Coon Mountain Sandstone Member of Pueblo Formation of Cisco Group (TX*)
Coon Mountain Sandstone [unranked] in Pueblo Formation of Cisco Group (TX-local)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Coon Mountain, Brown Co., Colorado River region, central TX. Best exposures from Coon Mountain southward to Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe RR, Brown and Coleman Cos., TX (Drake, 1893; Plummer and Moore, 1922).
AAPG geologic province:
Bend arch*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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