Usage:
Mingus Formation of Strawn Group (TX)
Mingus Shale Member of Garner Formation of Strawn Group (TX*)
Subunits:
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical) --all in TX: Dobbs Valley Sandstone [unranked], Goen Limestone [unranked], Santo Limestone [unranked], Thurber coal [informal].
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from small mining town south of Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto Co., central northern TX (Plummer and Moore, 1922).
AAPG geologic province:
Bend arch*
Fort Worth syncline*
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 ([ ]).