Usage:
Cox Sandstone of Trinity Group (TX*)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous (Comanchean Provincial Epoch)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Cox Mountain where formation is prominently exposed, 12 mi north of Eagle Flat, El Paso Co. [now in Hudspeth Co.], TX (Richardson, 1904).
AAPG geologic province:
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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