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Geologic Unit: Salineno

Usage:

No current usage?
(†Salineno Sandstone Member of †Fayette Formation (TX) or †Salineno Sandstone Tongue of †Fayette Formation (TX) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the TX Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS.)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Eocene


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

Not synopsized to date.


AAPG geologic province:

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 ([ ]).