Usage:
No current usage.
(†Lampasas Series of Pennsylvanian System (TX) considered obsolete.)
Subunits:
Big Saline and Smithwick Groups.
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Lampasas Co., TX. Best outcrops of beds are in western Lampasas and eastern San Saba Counties near village of Bend. McAnnelly's Bend in vicinity of village of Bend has been used as type area of Bend division (Cheney, 1940).
Type section: around Llano uplift of central TX and in area to north (Cheney and others, 1945).
AAPG geologic province:
Llano uplift
Bend arch
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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