Usage:
Wedin Member of Cathedral Mountain Formation (TX*)
Geologic age:
early Permian (Leonardian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: under the west knob of hill 5300 in south-central part of Altuda quadrangle, in vicinity of Glass Mountains, Brewster Co., TX. Named from the Wedin No. 1 well on the Decie Ranch (Cooper and Grant, 1966).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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