Usage:
Salesville Shale Member of Mineral Wells Formation of Strawn Group (TX)
Salesville Shale of Strawn Group (TX)
Salesville Formation of [†?]Whitt Group (TX)
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from small town of Salesville, north of Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto Co., TX. Is well exposed in a number of the smaller streams north and west of Mineral Wells (Plummer and Moore, 1922).
AAPG geologic province:
Bend arch
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 ([ ]).