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Geologic Unit: Elliott Creek
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Elliott Creek bed
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Clay
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Drake, N.F., 1893, Report on the Colorado coal field of Texas, IN Fourth annual report of the Geological Survey of Texas, 1892: Geological Survey of Texas Annual Report, v. 4, p. 357-444. [Available online from the University of Texas-Austin library: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/dumble/]


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).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Elliott Creek shale bed
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Fort Worth syncline
Publication:

Zimmerman, D.A., and Glover, G.D., 1956, Summary of geological nomenclature, Morrow, Bend, and Strawn series, Fort Worth basin area [Texas]: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Permian Basin Section, Field Trip Guidebook, Spring meeting and field symposium, May 11-12, 1956, p. 70-78.


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).


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