Usage:
Del Carmen Limestone (TX)
Geologic age:
late Early Cretaceous (Albian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Name Del Carmen is from term Sierra del Carmen, a series of tilted faulted block mountains where the limestone is exposed. Forms lower part of most escarpments in the Sierra del Carmen, Big Bend National Park, southwestern TX. Also forms lower vertical walls at Santa Elena Canyon and is present at Mariscal Canyon and in Christmas Mountains (Maxwell and Hazzard, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin
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