Usage:
Templeton Member of Woodbine Formation (OK,TX*)
Subunits:
Little Elm Tongue (TX).
Geologic age:
early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposed in gullied pasture and in bluffs along Templeton Branch, 0.2 to 0.4 mi west of country road corner and 0.5 to 0.65 mi west of the Bells-Ambrose Road, centering about 2.6 mi north and 0.2 mi east of Highway 69 underpass of Texas and Pacific RR at Bells, Grayson Co., TX (Bergquist, 1949).
AAPG geologic province:
South Oklahoma folded belt*
Ouachita folded belt*
Fort Worth syncline*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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