Usage:
Paducah Group (TX-recognized locally in Rolling Plains area)
Subunits:
TX-in eastern and southern Rolling Plains (alphabetical): Good Creek Formation, /Groesbeck Formation, Seymour Formation.
TX-in western and northern Rolling Plains: Lingos Formation.
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Irvingtonian
Rancholabrean
Holocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from exposures in vicinity of Paducah, Cottle Co., TX (Caran and Baumgardner, 1990).
AAPG geologic province:
Palo Duro basin
Permian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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