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  • Usage in publication:
    • Clear Creek bed
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Clay
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
    • Llano uplift
Publication:

Drake, N.F., 1893, Report on the Colorado coal field of Texas, IN Fourth annual report of the Geological Survey of Texas, 1892: Geological Survey of Texas Annual Report, v. 4, p. 357-444. [Available online from the University of Texas-Austin library: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/dumble/]


Summary:

Pg. 387, 392. Clear Creek bed in Canyon division. To south of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe RR, practically all limestone; to north of RR contains considerable clay and in places is divided by 20 to 50 feet of clay. Upper limestone 5 to 15 feet thick; lower limestone 25 to 75 feet thick. Fossiliferous (corals, echinoids, and brachiopods). Total thickness 20 to 140 feet. Member of Canyon division [Canyon is 3rd from top of 5 Carboniferous divisions of Cummins, 1891]. Underlies Bed No. 7 (25 to 100 feet of clay) and overlies Cedarton bed. Age is Pennsylvanian.
[Named from Clear Creek, Brown Co., Colorado River region, central TX.]

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 458-459).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Clear Creek limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
    • Llano uplift
Publication:

Plummer, F.B., and Moore, R.C., 1922, Pennsylvanian stratigraphy of north-central Texas: Journal of Geology, v. 30, no. 1, p. 18-42.


Summary:

Pg. 24, 31, 35; Univ. Texas Bull., no. 2132, p. 109, 111, 113, 115. Clear Creek limestone, 10 to 25 feet thick, is a member of Brad formation in Colorado River Valley, Colorado River region, central Texas. Underlies Placid shale and overlies Cedarton shale and sandstone; all members of Brad formation. West of Brownwood and along its outcrop across Brown County it is a yellow-brown limestone made up of several more or less discontinuous layers which in places combine to form a solid ledge, but in other places are separated by thin beds of shale. In places it can be distinguished by its dark yellow-brown color; in other places it is light gray and massively bedded. [Age is Pennsylvanian.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 458-459).


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