Usage:
Wills Point Formation of Midway Group (AR*?,TX*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in TX: Kerens Member*, Mexia Member*, Solomon Creek Member.
Geologic age:
Tertiary, early*
Paleocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Wills Point, Van Zandt Co., eastern TX coastal plain (Penrose, 1890).
AAPG geologic province:
East Texas basin*
Gulf Coast 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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).