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Geologic Unit: Barton Creek
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Barton Creek or Caprina limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ouachita folded belt
Publication:

Hill, R.T., 1889, The lower, or Grand Prairie formation (Comanche series), IN Relation of the uppermost Cretaceous beds of the eastern and southern United States by Robert T. Hill; and the Tertiary Cretaceous parting of Arkansas and Texas by Robert T. Hill and R.A.F. Penrose, Jr.: American Journal of Science, v. 138, no. 228, art. 58, p. 470.


Summary:

(Credited to R.T. Hill and R.A.F. Penrose, Jr.) Pg. 470. Barton Creek or Caprina limestone. Estimated thickness 1,000 feet. Exposed on Barton Creek [near Austin, in Travis County, Texas] above the ford, also in high bluffs of the Colorado at and opposite Johnson's quarry; also in west bluff of Mount Bonnel. Included in Comanche series [Lower Cretaceous].

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 122).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Barton Creek limestone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ouachita folded belt
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:

†Barton Creek limestone abandoned. Same as Edwards limestone, later name but affording better type locality.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 122).


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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