Usage:
No current usage.
(†Lipan Beds (TX) abandoned. Rocks now included in Wellborn and Caddell Formations of Jackson Group. See Wellborn and Caddell.)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in Lipan Hills, east of Campbellton [Atascosa Co.], and their extensions to northeast and southwest, where they form a north-facing escarpment which is traceable in a broken line for 20 mi or more, southern Texas coastal plain (Dumble, 1924).
AAPG geologic province:
Gulf Coast basin
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