Usage:
Fashing Clay Member of Whitsett Formation of Jackson Group (TX*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
About 1.8 mi south of Fashing School, and 0.25 mi south of sharp curve on Farm Road 99 where highway from Fashing to Whitsett bends from a southerly to southwesterly direction. Named from exposures around town of Fashing, Atascosa Co., south-central TX (Ellisor, 1933; Eargle, 1959).
AAPG geologic province:
Gulf Coast basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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