Usage:
Saratoga Chalk (AR*,LA*,TX*)
Saratoga Formation (AR)
Saratoga Chalk of Taylor Group (TX)
Saratoga Formation of Navarro Group (LA*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian; Gulfian Provincial Epoch)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named for typical exposures north and east of Saratoga, Hempstead and Howard Cos., AR (J.C. Branner, 1898, Amer. Inst. Mining Eng. Trans., v. 27, p. 52-59) [From J.D. McFarland, compiler, 2004, Strat. Summary of Arkansas, Arkansas Geol. Com. Inf. Circ., no. 36].
AAPG geologic province:
Arkla basin*
East Texas 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 ([ ]).