- Usage in publication:
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- Comanche Creek bed
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Clay
- Sandstone
- Sand
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Bend arch
- Llano uplift
Summary:
Pg. 374, 385. Comanche Creek bed in Strawn division. Clays, 300 feet thick, divided into three parts by 8 to 10 feet of hard, massive sandstone associated with 10 to 15 feet of shaly friable sandstone and clay. Member of Strawn division [Strawn is 2nd from base of 5 Carboniferous divisions of Cummins, 1891]. Underlies Antelope Creek bed and overlies Wilbarger Creek bed. Age is Pennsylvanian.
[Named from Comanche Creek, Mills Co., Colorado River region, central TX.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 498).
- Usage in publication:
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- Comanche Creek bed
- Modifications:
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- Areal extent
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Fort Worth syncline
Summary:
Pg. 72. Comanche Creek bed in Strawn series. About 300 feet thick, divided into three parts by 8 to 10 feet of hard massive sandstone associated with 10 to 15 feet of shaly friable sandstone and clay. Underlies Antelope Creek bed; overlies Wilbarker Creek bed. [Age is Pennsylvanian; age of Strawn not discussed.]
[Report area in Parker County, central Texas.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 545-546); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
- Usage in publication:
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- Comanche Creek bed
- Modifications:
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- Not used
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Bend arch
Summary:
Pg. 58, pl. 27. [†Comanche Creek bed of Strawn formation not used by the USGS; a local term considered obsolete. See also entry under Strawn.] Drake (1893) separated rocks of Strawn group [division] into 20 units of alternating sandstone and shale beds. He gave local names to these units, or "beds" as he termed them, and numbered them from bottom to top, 4 to 23. Only Drake's name for upper unit, the Ricker, is in common use today, and that name has been restricted to the base of Drake's Ricker bed.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 901).
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