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Geologic Unit: Elm Creek

Usage:

No current usage.
(†/Elm Creek Limestone of Canyon Group (TX-recognized locally in Wise Co.) considered invalid. May be same as Ranger Limestone Member of Brad Formation. See Ranger.)

[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Permian Elm Creek Limestone by Drake (1893) in TX.]


Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Notable exposures in middle part of Elm Creek, Wise Co., central northern TX (Bose, 1918).


AAPG geologic province:

Fort Worth syncline


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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