- Usage in publication:
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- Elliott Creek bed
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Clay
- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Bend arch
Summary:
Pg. 374, 376. Elliott Creek bed in Strawn division. Chiefly bluish-gray clays, slightly shaly at places, but toward base and top interstratified with thin sandstones. Thickness 100 feet. Member of Strawn division [Strawn is 2nd from base of 5 Carboniferous divisions of Cummins, 1891]. Overlies Burnt Branch bed and underlies Shadrick Mill sandstone. Age is Pennsylvanian.
[Named from Elliott Creek, Lampasas Co., Colorado River region, central TX.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 675).
- Usage in publication:
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- Elliott Creek shale bed
- Modifications:
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- Areal extent
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Fort Worth syncline
Summary:
Pg. 73. Elliott Creek shale bed in Strawn series. Largely bluish-gray clays. Thickness 100 feet. Underlies Shadrick Mills sandstone; overlies Burnt Branch 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. 1240-1241); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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