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Geologic Unit: Dozier
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dozier beds
    • Dozier sandstones
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Palo Duro basin
Publication:

Beede, J.W., 1907, Invertebrate paleontology of the Upper Permian red beds of Oklahoma and the panhandle of Texas: University of Kansas Bulletin, no. 4, p. 113-171.


Summary:

Pg. 142+. [Discusses fossils collected from Whitehorse sandstone of Oklahoma and from Quatermaster formation, and says:] The fossils collected from Quatermaster division of the Permian are from the sandstone rolled down on western side of "Dozier Mountains," east of Mr. Caperton's place (then Dozier Post Office), 15 miles south or southwest of Shamrock, [Collingsworth Co.], in Panhandle of Texas. [Fossils discussed. Mentioned "the gastropods of the Dozier beds" on p. 143, and farther along on same page mentions one species "from the Whitehorse and Dozier sandstones." Under the fossil description the different species are not assigned to any formation but are said to have been collected at Dozier, Texas. All there is about the Dozier sandstone.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 629-630).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • [Dozier sandstone member]
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Anadarko basin
    • Palo Duro basin
    • Permian basin
Publication:

Roth, R.I., 1932, Evidence indicating the limits of Triassic in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas: Journal of Geology, v. 40, no. 8, p. 688-725., See also Tulsa Geol. Soc. Digest, p. 57-59, 1933 [abs.]


Summary:

Pg. 703. Believes Memphis sandstone is a continuation of Dozier Hills, which are channel deposits, and that it marks base of his Custer formation, which he assigned to Lower Triassic.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 629-630).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Dozier sandstone member
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Anadarko basin
    • Palo Duro basin
    • Permian basin
Publication:

Sellards, E.H., 1933, The pre-Paleozoic and Paleozoic systems in Texas, Part 1, IN Sellards, E.H., Adkins, W.S., and Plummer, F.B, The geology of Texas; Volume 1, Stratigraphy: University of Texas Bulletin, no. 3232, p. 15-238., Published July, 1933


Summary:

Pg. 180. Eskota gypsum, Dozier sandstone, and Claytonville dolomite are members of Whitehorse-Cloud Chief interval (Permian).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 629-630).


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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dozier sandstone member*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
Publication:

Darton, N.H., Stephenson, L.W., and Gardner, J.A., 1937, Geologic map of Texas: U.S. Geological Survey [State Geologic Map], 4 sheets, scale 1:500,000, See also GSA Bull., v. 44, pt. 1, p. 82, 1933 [abs.]


Summary:

[Darton, 1932 USGS Geol. Map of Texas, Prelim. Ed.] Peacock formation, red sandstone. Dozier ("Memphis") sandstone member [which he separately mapped].
[See under †Memphis sandstone.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 629-630).


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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dozier sandstone member*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
Publication:

King, P.B., 1942, Permian of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 26, no. 4, p. 535-763. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pl. 2. Dozier sandstone member of Rush Springs formation. Reallocated to member status in Rush Springs formation. [Age is Permian.]
[GNC remark (ca. 1966, US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1154): The USGS has abandoned the term Peacock.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1154).


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