Usage:
Tanyard Formation of Ellenburger Group (TX*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in TX*: Staendebach Member, Threadgill Member.
Geologic age:
Early Ordovician*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: at the Tanyard on east bank of Buchanan Lake opposite mouth of Jim John Creek and Cedar Hollow, and 2 to 3 mi north of mouth of Fall Creek, Burnet Co., TX (Cloud and others, 1946).
AAPG geologic province:
Llano uplift*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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