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Geologic Unit: Gibson
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Gibson limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Strawn basin
Publication:

Cordell, R.J., Fitzgeorge, H.J., and Sparks, J.B., 1954, Road log, IN Facies study of the Strawn-Canyon series in the Brazos River area, north-central Texas: Abilene Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, November 19-20, 1954, p. 9-46.


Summary:

Pg. 22, 25 (fig. 16) [H.T. Mann, Geologic map of Barton Creek area, Erath County, Texas]. Gibson limestone member of Grindstone Creek limestone of Millsap Lake group. Name applied to member of Grindstone Creek [name credited to H.T. Mann, Univ. Texas, unpub. MS thesis]. Lies below Goen limestone and above Santo limestone member. Unit had been mapped as Santo(?) by Plummer and Hornberger (Univ. Texas Bull., no. 3534, 1936) and as Goen by Nickell (Univ. Texas Bur. Econ. Geol. Min. Res. Survey Circular, no. 26, 1939). Age is Middle Pennsylvanian.
Named from exposures along Gibson Creek, Erath Co., north-central TX.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1503).


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