First used as a unit in Permian Clear Fork division. Report area is north-central TX. Named for Fulda station on the Wichita Valley RR, Baylor Co, TX on Bend arch, where unit is prominently developed. Overlies and underlies thick red clay beds. Fulda is a sandstone varying from a few inches to many feet in thickness. Ranges in color from bright blue through all the shades of brown, yellow, and buff to brilliant red. In some places it is very massive and even weathers out into rounded concretionary masses from 5-20 ft in diameter, but this may change within a short distance to a thin and shaly condition with pronounced cross-bedding. At the Fulda station locality it is quite massive and nearly 20 ft thick in places. Here it lies directly on the clay beneath and disappears beneath the overlying layers a few mi east of Seymour in Baylor Co. In the valley of Godlin Creek and in portions of the valley of the Little Wichita River near the mouth of Godlin Creek the Fulda terminates below in a layer of conglomerate which separates it from the clay beneath. Is almost entirely devoid of fossils. Map showing localities of measured sections. Of Permian age.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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