Usage:
Vale Formation of Clear Fork Group (TX*)
Subunits:
Bullwagon Dolomite Member (TX*).
Geologic age:
early Permian (Leonardian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from old Post Office of Vale, on Ballinger-Maverick Road, on east side of Valley Creek, Runnels Co., central northern TX (Beede and Waite, 1918).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).