Usage:
Queen City Sand of Claiborne Group (TX*)
Queen City Formation of Claiborne Group (TX*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in TX: Arp Member, Omen Member.
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (middle Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Best developed in neighborhood of Queen City, Cass Co., eastern TX (Kennedy, 1892).
AAPG geologic province:
East Texas basin*
Gulf Coast basin*
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 ([ ]).