Usage:
San Miguel Formation (TX*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from abandoned village of San Miguel, near Eagle Pass, Maverick Co., southern TX (Dumble, 1892).
AAPG geologic province:
Gulf Coast basin*
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 ([ ]).