Usage:
Mineral Wells Formation of Strawn Group (TX*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): --all in TX: Capps Limestone [unranked] or Capps Limestone Member*, Dog Bend Limestone [unranked], East Mountain Shale Member*, Hog Mountain Sandstone [unranked], Keechi Creek Shale Member, Lake Pinto Sandstone [unranked] or Lake Pinto Sandstone Member*, Ricker Sandstone Member*, Salesville Shale Member, [?]Thurber Coal Member, Turkey Creek Sandstone [unranked] or Turkey Creek Sandstone Member*, Village Bend Limestone [unranked].
Geologic age:
Middle to Late Pennsylvanian (late Desmoinesian to early Missourian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in vicinity of Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto Co., central northern TX (Plummer and Moore, 1922).
AAPG geologic province:
Bend arch*
Fort Worth syncline*
Strawn basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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