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Geologic Unit: Coleman
Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Coleman-Albany series
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Clay
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Dumble, E.T., 1890, Report of the State Geologist [Texas], IN Dumble, E.T., First annual report of the Geological Survey of Texas, 1889: Geological Survey of Texas Annual Report, v. 1, p. xvii-lxxv. [Available online from the University of Texas-Austin library: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/dumble/]


Summary:

Pl. 3, p. lxvii. Coleman-Albany series. Shales, clays, and limestones, barren of coal, overlying Waldrip-Cisco series and underlying Wichita beds. Study area in central basin, approximately from Colorado River north to Red River, north-central Texas. Age is Carboniferous (Coal Measures).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 487); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Coleman division
  • Modifications:
    • Principal reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Clay
    • Shale
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Tarr, R.S., 1890, Preliminary report on the coal fields of the Colorado River [Texas], IN Dumble, E.T., First annual report of the Geological Survey of Texas, 1889: Geological Survey of Texas Annual Report, v. 1, p. 200-216. [Available online from the University of Texas-Austin library: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/dumble/]


Summary:

Pg. 210-213. Coleman division. Alternating limestones, clays, shales, and sandstones overlying Waldrip coal division. The limestone forming basal bed of Coleman division is 25 to 100 feet thick and not more than 100 feet above the coal in Waldrip division. Age is Carboniferous.
Named for Coleman Co., central TX, and for occurrence near town of Coleman, the county seat.

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 487).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Coleman division†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1936, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1935-1938) on Carboniferous and Permian rocks of Texas], 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:

†Coleman division (Permian) of central Texas is approximately same as Wichita formation.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 487).


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

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