Usage:
Sprinkle Formation of Taylor Group (TX*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposure along Little Walnut Creek about 0.5 mi west of the bridge on the old Austin-Manor highway; here, just south of the intersection of Loyola Lane and Tulsa Drive in the River Bend subdivision in Austin, TX, the Sprinkle is faulted into a small graben (Young, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Ouachita folded belt*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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