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Geologic Unit: Black Prairie
Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Black Prairie series
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Arkla basin
    • East Texas basin
    • 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. xiii-xiv. Upper Cretaceous or Black Prairie series, a local name for the Upper Cretaceous deposits of Texas and southwestern Arkansas

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 204-205).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Black Prairie series†
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Arkla basin
    • East Texas basin
    • 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:

†Black Prairie series. Same as Gulf series, older name.
Named from Black Prairie of eastern TX and AR defined by R.T. Hill in Amer. Jour. Sci., 3rd ser., v. 33, p. 294, 1887.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 204-205).


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

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