Usage:
Curry Clay [unranked] in Harpersville Formation of Cisco Group (TX)
Misspelled Curray in some reports.
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Curry Farm, 5 mi south and 2.25 mi west of Breckenridge, Stephens Co. central northern TX (Plummer, 1948; Plummer and Bradley, 1949).
[The Curry family were pioneers of Stephens County.]
AAPG geologic province:
Bend arch
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