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Geologic Unit: Red Branch

Usage:

Red Branch Member of Woodbine Formation (OK*,TX*)


Geologic age:

early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)*


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

Type locality: near the Red Branch community in northwestern Grayson Co., northeastern TX (Bergquist, 1949).


AAPG geologic province:

South Oklahoma folded belt*
Fort Worth syncline*
Ouachita folded belt*


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 ([ ]).