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Geologic Unit: Good Creek

Usage:

Good Creek Formation (TX)
Good Creek Formation of Paducah Group (TX-recognized locally in eastern and southern Rolling Plains)


Geologic age:

Quaternary
Pleistocene, middle
Pleistocene, late
Rancholabrean


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

On Easley Ranch, in roadcut west of bridge where State Farm Market Road 654 crosses Monument Creek, Foard Co., TX (Dalquest, 1962).


AAPG geologic province:

Permian basin
Palo Duro basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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