Usage:
Eagle Mountains Sandstone (TX)
Eagle Mountains Sandstone Member of Grayson Formation (TX*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Carpenter Canyon at point about 1 mi above Carpenter Wells, Hudspeth Co., southwestern TX. Named from exposures on east side of Eagle Mountains, southwestern TX (Gillerman, 1953).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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