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Geologic Unit: Pueblo

Usage:

Pueblo Formation of Cisco Group (TX*)


Subunits:

(alphabetical) --all in TX*: Camp Colorado Limestone Member, Camp Creek Shale Member, Coon Mountain Sandstone Member, Saddle Creek Limestone Member, Salt Creek Bend Shale Member, Stockwether Limestone Member, Waldrip Shale Member.


Geologic age:

Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) to early Permian (Wolfcampian)*


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

Named from exposures along valley of Battle Creek at Pueblo, Callahan Co., Brazos River Valley, central northern TX (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).


AAPG geologic province:

Bend arch*
Llano uplift*


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 ([ ]).