Usage:
No current usage.
(†Timber Belt beds (TX) are same as Wilcox, part of Claiborne, and Jackson groups. See Wilcox, Claiborne, and Jackson.)
Also called †Sabine River beds.
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from the great timber region of eastern TX (Penrose, 1890).
AAPG geologic province:
Gulf Coast basin
East Texas basin
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 ( ).
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