Usage:
Packsaddle Schist (TX*)
Geologic age:
Precambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Packsaddle Mountain, Llano Co., central TX (Comstock and Dumble, 1890).
Type section (composite): along Honey, Cottonwood, and Sandy Creeks, and on a portion of the J.L. Pearson Ranch, southwest of Click, Llano region, Llano Co., central TX (McGehee, 1979).
AAPG geologic province:
Llano uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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