Usage:
No current usage.
(†Stones Switch Sandstone Member of Whitsett Formation of Jackson Group (TX*) replaced with Deweesville Sandstone Member. See Deweesville.)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named for railroad siding (now abandoned) from which a spur track led to a quarry on bluff overlooking Atascosa River 2.5 mi north of Whitsett Bluff and 4.4 mi S. 5 deg. W. of Campbellton, Atascosa Co., south-central TX (Ellisor, 1933; Eargle, 1959).
AAPG geologic province:
Gulf Coast basin*
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