Duck Creek Limestone of Washita Group (OK*,TX*)
Duck Creek Formation of Washita Group (NM,OK*,TX*, and LA*-subsurface)
Duck Creek Member of Georgetown Limestone (TX)
Early Cretaceous (Albian; Comanchean Provincial Epoch)*
Named from Duck Creek, Grayson Co., northeastern TX (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896).
Fort Worth syncline*
Ouachita folded belt
Permian basin
South Oklahoma folded belt*
Strawn basin
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