Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Honey Formation of Packsaddle Group of †Llano Supergroup (TX) reallocated to Packsaddle Schist. See Packsaddle.)
Originally called Honey Creek (preoccupied).
Geologic age:
Precambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality [composite]: lower part, in Honey Creek, northwest of Packsaddle Mountain, Cap Mountain quadrangle, Llano Co., central TX; upper part, along Sandy Creek from TX Highway 71 bridge to creek's mouth, Dunman Mountain quadrangle, Llano Co., central TX (McGehee, 1979).
AAPG geologic province:
Llano uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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