Usage:
Frazier Canyon Formation (TX)
(†Frazier Canyon Formation not used by the USGS.)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in Frazier Canyon north of Fort Davis, [in vicinity of Lat. 30 deg. 40 min. 16 sec. N., Long. 103 deg. 50 min. 38 sec. W., Swayback Mountain 7.5-min quadrangle, Jeff Davis Co., western TX] (see Barnes, 1979, 1982; C.D. Henry, Univ. Texas Bur. Econ. Geol., contract rpt. prepared for USGS, 14-08-0001-A0516, Sept. 1988, p. 19-21).
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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