- Usage in publication:
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- Hog Mountain sandstone bed
- Modifications:
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- Revised
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Fort Worth syncline
Summary:
Pg. 22, fig. 3. Referred to as Hog Mountain sandstone bed in East Mountain formation. In area of this report [Parker County, north-central Texas], 22 feet thick, fine- to medium-grained, poorly to well cemented, and ranges from thick-bedded to flaggy. Age is Pennsylvanian (Strawn).
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1777).
- Usage in publication:
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- Hog Mountain Sandstone [unranked]
- Modifications:
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- Mapped 1:250k
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Fort Worth syncline
Summary:
Hog Mountain Sandstone [unranked] in Mineral Wells Formation of Strawn Group. Fine- to medium-grained, thick-bedded to flaggy, brown. Thickness about 25 feet. Lies below Village Bend Limestone [unranked], in lower part of Mineral Wells Formation. [Age is late Middle Pennsylvanian (late Desmoinesian).]
[Small, isolated outcrop along western edge of map sheet, west of Weatherford, in Parker Co., eastern TX. See also adjacent Geol. Atlas Texas, Abilene sheet, 1972.]
Source: Publication.
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