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  • Usage in publication:
    • Bluff Dale sands
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sand
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Strawn basin
Publication:

Hill, R.T., 1901, Geography and geology of the Black and Grand Prairies, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Annual Report, 21, pt. 7, 666 p. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/ar/ar21_7]


Summary:

Pg. 152, 154, 462, 463, 464, 474, 491. Bluff Dale sands. Sands, 40 feet thick. Form top member of Basement sands at Glen Rose and vicinity. Underlie Glen Rose formation. Northern equivalent of Hensell sands of Colorado River section. [Age is Early Cretaceous (Comanche).]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 224).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Bluff Dale sand
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Strawn basin
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:

Bluff Dale sand (in Travis Peak formation). Age is Early Cretaceous (Comanche).
Named from Bluff Dale, Erath Co., central northern TX, where the sands supply artesian wells.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 224).


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

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