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Geologic Unit: Littig

Usage:

Littig Member of Kincaid Formation of Midway Group (TX*)


Geologic age:

early Tertiary (Paleocene)*


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

Type locality: in the road 1.5 mi by road south-southwest of Littig, on south side of Wilbarger Creek, [Elgin West 7.5-min quadrangle], Travis Co., central eastern TX (Plummer, 1933; see also H.J. Plummer, 1927, Univ. Texas Bull., no. 2644, pl. 1, sta. 61).


AAPG geologic province:

East Texas basin*
Ouachita folded belt*


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

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).