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  • Usage in publication:
    • Hog Mountain sandstone bed
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Fort Worth syncline
Publication:

Hendricks, C.L., 1957, Geology of Parker County, Texas: University of Texas Publication, no. 5724, 67 p.


Summary:

Pg. 22, fig. 3. Referred to as Hog Mountain sandstone bed in East Mountain formation. In area of this report [Parker County, north-central Texas], 22 feet thick, fine- to medium-grained, poorly to well cemented, and ranges from thick-bedded to flaggy. Age is Pennsylvanian (Strawn).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1777).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Hog Mountain Sandstone [unranked]
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:250k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Fort Worth syncline
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1987, Geologic atlas of Texas, Dallas sheet [revision of 1972 ed.]: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, [10 p., revised 1988], scale 1:250,000, Gayle Scott memorial edition


Summary:

Hog Mountain Sandstone [unranked] in Mineral Wells Formation of Strawn Group. Fine- to medium-grained, thick-bedded to flaggy, brown. Thickness about 25 feet. Lies below Village Bend Limestone [unranked], in lower part of Mineral Wells Formation. [Age is late Middle Pennsylvanian (late Desmoinesian).]
[Small, isolated outcrop along western edge of map sheet, west of Weatherford, in Parker Co., eastern TX. See also adjacent Geol. Atlas Texas, Abilene sheet, 1972.]

Source: Publication.


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