Usage:
No current usage.
(†Rough Creek Shale Member of Tesnus Formation (TX) replaced with informal "lower shale member of Tesnus Formation.")
Geologic age:
Late Mississippian (Chesterian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Origin of name not stated (Udden and others, 1916).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian 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 ([ ]).