Usage:
Yuma Sandstone Member of Manning Formation of Jackson Group (TX)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in vicinity of Yuma, southeastern TX, along Missouri Pacific RR track about 300 feet north of station at Yuma and about 6,000 feet west and 3,300 feet south of northeast corner of Walter Sutherland survey (Renick, 1936).
AAPG geologic province:
Gulf Coast basin
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