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Geologic Unit: Austin
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Austin marble
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Marble
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ouachita folded belt
Publication:

Hill, R.T., 1889, A preliminary annotated check list of the Cretaceous invertebrate fossils of Texas, accompanied by a short description of the lithology and stratigraphy of the system: University of Texas Bulletin, no. 4, 57 p. [Available online from the University of Texas-Austin Virtual Landscapes of Texas: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/landscapes/]


Summary:

Pg. xxii. Austin marble. Massive limestone, metamorphosed into marble, composed almost exclusively of calcified shells of REQUIENIA (CAPROTINA), NERINEA, etc. Thickness 20 feet. Overlies 10 feet of flagstone. Assigned to Washita division but may represent close of Fredericksburg division. [Age is Early Cretaceous (Comanche).]
[Named from occurrence at Austin, southeastern TX.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 93).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Austin marble†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1935, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1935-1938) on Cretaceous rocks of the U.S.], IN Wilmarth, M.G., 1938, Lexicon of geologic names of the United States (including Alaska): U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 896, pts. 1-2, 2396 p.


Summary:

†Austin marble abandoned. Conflicts with Austin chalk. Is a bed at top of Edwards limestone, the top formation of Fredericksburg group.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 93).


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 ([ ]).

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