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Geologic Unit: Cow Creek
Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cow Creek Limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:250k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Kerr basin
    • Ouachita folded belt
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1982, Geologic atlas of Texas, San Antonio sheet [revision of 1974 ed.]: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, [9 p., revised 1983], scale 1:250,000, Robert Hamilton Cuyler memorial edition


Summary:

Cow Creek Limestone. Limestone; massive, off-white, in part honeycombed, fossiliferous. Thickness about 75 feet, lower part not exposed. Lies below Hensell Sand. Age is Early Cretaceous; is oldest bedrock unit mapped in this map sheet.
[Mapped in very limited areas along Guadalupe River and its tributaries, in Kendall and Comal Cos., southern TX.]

Source: Publication.


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