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Geologic Unit: Rush Creek

Usage:

Rush Creek Member of Woodbine Formation (TX)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous (Gulfian Provincial Epoch)


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

Type locality: stream bank on Rush Creek, about 0.7 mi southeast of the east end of the dam at Lake Arlington, in southeast Tarrant Co., north-central TX (Davis and others, 1970).


AAPG geologic province:

Strawn basin


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