Usage:
Woodbine Group (LA?,TX)
Woodbine Formation (AR*,LA*,OK*,TX*)
Woodbine Sand (LA*,OK*,TX*)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical): Euless Formation (TX), Lewisville Formation (LA?,TX).
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical): Arlington member [informal] (TX), Dexter Member (OK,TX*), Euless Member (TX*), Lewisville Member (OK,TX*), Pepper Shale Member (TX*), Red Branch Member (OK*,TX*), Rush Creek Member (TX), Six Flags Limestone Bed (TX), Templeton Member (OK,TX*).
Geologic age:
early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at Woodbine, Cooke Co., TX, but best exposures are at Denison, TX, in southern half of city (Hill, 1901).
AAPG geologic province:
Arkla basin*
East Texas basin*
Fort Worth syncline*
Ouachita folded belt*
South Oklahoma folded belt*
Strawn 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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