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  • Usage in publication:
    • Beaumont clays*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Clay
    • Sand
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Hayes, C.W., and Kennedy, William, 1903, Oil fields of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Plain: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 212, 174 p.


Summary:

William Kennedy, pls. 1, 2, p. 20, 27. Beaumont clays. Brown, blue, yellow, gray, and black clays, in places carrying nodules of limestone irregularly distributed through the clays; interstratified with gray, grayish white, brown and blue sands. Thickness 25 to 400 feet. Overlies Columbia sands (Lissie formation] and underlies Recent coastal marsh deposits in eastern division of Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coastal Plain. [Age is Pleistocene.]
[Named from Beaumont, Jefferson Co., eastern TX.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 136).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Beaumont clay*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Deussen, Alexander, 1924, Geology of the coastal plain of Texas west of the Brazos River: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 126, (incl. geologic map, scale 1:1,000,000)


Summary:

Beaumont clay. Gave thickness of 300 to 900 feet. [Age is Pleistocene.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 136).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Beaumont clay*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Plummer, F.B., 1933, The Cenozoic systems in Texas, Part 3, IN Sellards, E.H., Adkins, W.S., and Plummer, F.B, The geology of Texas; Volume 1, Stratigraphy: University of Texas Bulletin, no. 3232, p. 519-818., Published July, 1933


Summary:

Pg. 789. Beaumont clay is unconformably on Lissie formation. [Age is Pleistocene.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 256).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Beaumont formation
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Price, W.A., 1939, Physiographic mapping of Quaternary formations in Rio Grande delta [Texas] [abs.]: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 23, no. 12, p. 1875-1876.


Summary:

Lake Charles and Ingleside formations (both new) replace Beaumont formation.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 256).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Beaumont clay (Sixth Street)
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Weeks, A.W., 1945, Quaternary deposits of Texas Coastal Plain between Brazos River and Rio Grande: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 29, no. 12, p. 1693-1720. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pg. 1695 (fig. 1), 1708-1709. Quaternary deposits of Texas Coastal Plain between Brazos River and Rio Grande are divided into (ascending) Willis, Gay Hill, Bastrou Park, Uvalde, Asylum, Capitol, Beaumont (Sixth Street), Live Oak Bar (approximately of Beaumont age), First Street, Riverview, and Sand Beach terrace deposits. [Age is Pleistocene.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 256).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Beaumont formation
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Doering, J.A., 1956, Review of Quaternary surface formations of Gulf Coast region: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 40, no. 8, p. 1816-1862. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pg. 1830-1831. In southwestern Louisiana, Beaumont formation is divided into Oberlin (lower Beaumont) and Eunice (upper Beaumont). [Age is Pleistocene.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 256).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Beaumont Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:250k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Clay
    • Silt
    • Sand
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • East Texas basin
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1968, Geologic atlas of Texas, Beaumont sheet (revised 1992): University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, [4 p.], scale 1:250,000, Harold Norman Fisk memorial edition


Summary:

Pamphlet [p. 1-2]. Beaumont Formation. Mostly clay, silt, and sand; includes mostly stream channel, point bar, natural levee, backswamp, and to a lesser extent coastal marsh and mud-flat deposits; concretions of calcium carbonate, iron oxide, and iron-manganese oxides in zone of weathering; surface almost featureless, characterized by relict river channels shown by meander patterns and pimple mounds on meanderbelt ridges, separated by areas of low, relatively smooth, featureless backswamp deposits without pimple mounds; thickness 100+/- feet. Is younger than Pleistocene age Lissie Formation [mapped as Montgomery and Bentley Formations in 1968 edition]. Older than Deweyville Formation (Holocene or late? Pleistocene). [Equivalent to Prairie Allogroup of Louisiana.] Age is considered Pleistocene. Subdivided into:
(1) map unit Qbs, dominantly sand and silt of moderate permeability, includes meanderbelt, levee, crevasse splay, and distributary sands;
(2) map unit Qbc, dominantly clay and mud of low permeability and high to very high shrink-swell potential, includes interdistributary muds, abandoned channel-fill muds, and fluvial overbank muds; and
(3) map unit Qbb, barrier island and beach deposits of high to very high permeability, probably part of "Ingleside" barrier island system, characterized by pimple mounds and rounded depressions, includes beach, foredunes, barrier-strandplain-chenier vegetated flats, thickness <30 feet.
[Most notable exposures in Beaumont region, in Orange, Newton, Jasper, Hardin, Jefferson, Liberty, Harris, and Montgomery Cos., eastern TX.]

Source: Publication.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Beaumont Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:250k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Clay
    • Silt
    • Sand
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1974, Geologic atlas of Texas, Seguin sheet: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000, Donald Clinton Barton memorial edition


Summary:

Beaumont Formation. Clay, silt, and sand; concretions of calcium carbonate, iron oxide, and iron-manganese oxides common in zone of weathering. Thickness about 100 feet. Two subunits are distinguished in map area: (1) dominantly clay and mud of low permeability; and (2) dominantly clayey sand and silt of low to moderate permeability. Overlies Lissie Formation; underlies Quaternary alluvium. Age is Pleistocene.
Mapped in Jackson, Wharton, Matagorda, Colorado, Fort Bend, and Austin Cos., southeastern TX.

Source: Modified from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Beaumont Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Richmond, G.M. (editor), Weide, D.L. (editor), Moore, D.W. (editor), Pope, D.E. (compiler), Gilliland, W.A. (compiler), and Wermund, E.G., Jr. (compiler), 1990, Quaternary geologic map of the White Lake 4 degrees x 6 degrees quadrangle, United States: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, Quaternary Geological Atlas of the United States, I-1420 (NH-15), 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000, Prepared in cooperation with Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas geol. surveys


Summary:

Includes two facies: 1) distributary channel (3-10 m thick in outcrop); thickens south to more than 100 m in subsurface), and 2) interdistributary mud (5-10 m thick in outcrop; more than 100 m in subsurface). Outcrop area shown on this map connects to south with Austin and Monterrey 4 deg x 6 deg quads. These maps show the exposed extent of Beaumont in this part of the TX and LA parts of Gulf Coast basin. Of late Pleistocene age.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Beaumont Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Moore, D.W. (compiler), Wermund, E.G., Jr. (compiler), Richmond, G.M. (editor), and Christiansen, A.C. (editor), 1993, Quaternary geologic map of the Austin 4 degrees x 6 degrees quadrangle, [Texas], United States, IN Quaternary geologic atlas of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, I-1420 (NH-14), 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000, Prepared in cooperation with Texas Bur. Econ. Geol


Summary:

Beaumont Formation. Outcrop area shown on this map connects with the White Lake 4 x 6 degrees quadrangle to the north and the Monterrey 4 x 6 degrees quadrangle to the south; together, these maps show the extent of the formation. Includes three facies: (1) beach and nearshore marine sand, 3 to 15 m thick; (2) delta sand and silt, 3 to 10 m thick on outcrop (thickens to the south in subsurface to 100+ m thick); (3) delta silt and clay, 5 to 10 m thick at north edge of outcrop (thickens to the south in subsurface to 100+ m thick). Dips seaward beneath Holocene deposits. Rests disconformably on Lissie Formation. Age is late Pleistocene.

Source: Modified from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Beaumont Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Moore, D.W. (editor), Richmond, G.M. (editor), Moore, D.W. (compiler), and Wermund, E.G., Jr. (compiler), 1993, Quaternary geologic map of the Monterrey 4 degrees x 6 degrees quadrangle, United States: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, Quaternary Geological Atlas of the United States, I-1420 (NG-14), 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000, Prepared in cooperation with Texas Bur. Econ. Geol


Summary:

Beaumont Formation. Outcrop area shown on this map connects with the Austin and White Lake 4 x 6 degrees quadrangles to the north; together, these maps show the extent of the formation. Includes three facies: (1) relict beach ridge and associated sand, 5 to 15 m thick; (2) distributary channel, 3 to 10 m thick on outcrop, 100+ m thick in subsurface; (3) interdistributary, 5 to 10 m thick on outcrop, 100+ m thick in subsurface. Distributary and interdistributary facies intertongue. Dips seaward beneath Holocene deposits. Rests disconformably on Lissie Formation. Age is late Pleistocene.

Source: Modified from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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