Usage:
Fizzle Flat Member of Boquillas Formation of Terlingua Group (TX)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Apparently named from Fizzle Flat, north of Alamo de Cesario Creek in west-central part of Agua Fria 15-minute quadrangle, southwestern Brewster Co., TX, Big Bend region. A 50-foot thick section measured in Blue Hills area 1 mi south-southwest of Clanton Ranch (Moon, 1953).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin
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