Usage:
Garner Formation of Strawn Group (TX*)
Garner Formation of Lone Camp Group (TX)
Garner Sandstone Member of Graham Formation of Cisco Group (OK)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Brazos River Conglomerate Member (TX*) or Brazos River Sandstone Member (TX), Mingus Shale Member (TX*).
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian, Late (OK)
Pennsylvanian, Middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along the Millsap-Mineral Wells Highway as it ascends scarp 2.5 mi west of Millsap, Parker Co., central TX (Hendricks, 1957).
Named from town of Garner [Parker Co., TX] (Sellards, 1933; name credited to G. Scott and J.M. Armstrong).
AAPG geologic province:
Fort Worth syncline*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).