Usage:
No current usage?
(†Gatesville Formation of Fredericksburg Group (TX) considered obsolete? Uncertain if used by the TX Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS.)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Near State Training School for Boys, north of Gatesville, Coryell Co., north-central TX (Thompson, 1935).
AAPG geologic province:
Strawn basin
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