Usage:
Devil's Graveyard Formation (TX-local)
Devil's Graveyard Formation of Buck Hill Group (TX-local)
Recognized in southwestern TX, notably Trans-Pecos area, the Solitario area, and Big Bend Ranch State Park.
Subunits:
Bandera Mesa Member (TX).
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene to Oligocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Devil's Graveyard, along Alamo de Cesario Creek and south face of Bandera Mesa, Agua Fria and Tascotal Mesa quadrangles, Brewster and Presidio Cos., TX. Reference sections and boundary stratotypes also designated (Stevens and others, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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