Usage:
Marble Falls Limestone of Bend Group (TX*)
Marble Falls Formation of Bend Group (TX)
Marble Falls Group (TX)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical) --all in TX: Big Saline Formation, Sloan Formation.
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical) --all in TX: Big Saline Member, Gibbons Conglomerate Lentil, Lemons Bluff Member, Sloan Member.
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian, Early*
Pennsylvanian, Middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposure along banks of Colorado River from dam at Marble Falls to base of strata 1 mi below highway bridge at Marble Falls, Burnet Co., central TX.
AAPG geologic province:
Llano uplift*
Bend arch*
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 ([ ]).