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Geologic Unit: Pilot Knob

Usage:

Pilot Knob basalt [informal] (TX)

Considered informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Not designated. Mapped at Pilot Knob, a hill south of Austin, in Travis Co., central eastern TX. Origin of name not stated by author (Garner and Young, 1976).


AAPG geologic province:

Ouachita folded belt


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