Usage:
Deweesville Sandstone Member of Whitsett Formation of Jackson Group (TX*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: uranium pits which were used as tailing ponds at Falls City uranium mill of Susquehanna-Western, Inc., 13.6 km southwest of Falls City on Farm Road 1344, 800 m northwest of Farm Road 791, Karnes Co. Natural exposures in northwest-facing scarp of Scared Dog Creek near abandoned community of Deweesville, south-central TX (Eargle, 1972).
AAPG geologic province:
Gulf Coast basin*
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