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Geologic Unit: Bodeville
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Bodeville series
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Schist
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Llano uplift
Publication:

Comstock, T.B., 1890, A preliminary report on the central mineral region of Texas, IN Dumble, E.T., First annual report of the Geological Survey of Texas, 1889: Geological Survey of Texas Annual Report, v. 1, p. 239-410.


Summary:

Pl. 3, p. lvi, 265-267 (Comstock and Dumble). Bodeville series. Mica and chloritic schists, chiefly acidic, forming top division of Burnetan system. Probably overlies Long Mountain series. Unconformably underlies Valley Spring gneiss. Age is pre-Cambrian (Llano series).
[Named from Bodeville, Mason Co., central TX.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 225).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Bodeville series†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Llano uplift
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1936, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1910-1937) on Precambrian and Paleozoic rocks of the western 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:

†Bodeville series abandoned. A part of either Packsaddle schist or Valley Spring gneiss of present [ca. 1936] nomenclature.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 225).


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

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