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Geologic Unit: Lake Trammel
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Lake Trammel sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Permian basin
Publication:

Wrather, W.E., 1917, Notes on the Texas Permian: Southwestern Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin [now American Association of Petroleum Geologists], v. 1, p. 93-106.


Summary:

Pg. 95-96, pl. Lake Trammel sandstone. Massive, soft, red sandstone 100 feet thick. Disintegrates readily. Lies 130 feet above base of Quartermaster formation in section [along the Texas and Pacific RR from Abilene, Taylor County, to Sweetwater, Nolan County, central northern Texas]. Overlain by 2 feet of white crystalline gypsum. [Age is Permian.]
[Origin of name not stated. Notable exposures west of Aspermont, Stonewall Co., and west of Sweetwater, Nolan Co., central northern TX.]

Source: US geologic names lexicons (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1137; USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2087).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Lake Trammel sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
    • Permian basin
Publication:

Gould, C.N., 1926, Our present knowledge of the Permian of the Great Plains: Journal of Geology, v. 34, no. 5, p. 415-421.


Summary:

Pg. 419. Lake Trammel sandstone of Texas is stratigraphic equivalent of Whitehorse sandstone of Oklahoma and Kansas, and the horizon can be traced continuously in the 3 states.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1137).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Lake Trammel sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
    • Permian basin
Publication:

Lloyd, A.M., and Thompson, W.C., 1929, Correlation of Permian outcrops on eastern side of the West Texas Permian basin: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 13, no. 8, p. 945-956. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pg. 945-946. Typical Whitehorse sandstone can be seen west of Aspermont, Stonewall County, Texas, and west of Sweetwater [Nolan County, Texas], where occur the outcrops of Wrather's Lake Trammel sandstone, now correlated with Whitehorse sandstone.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1137).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Lake Trammel sandstone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
    • Permian basin
Publication:

Sellards, E.H., 1933, The pre-Paleozoic and Paleozoic systems in Texas, Part 1, IN Sellards, E.H., Adkins, W.S., and Plummer, F.B, The geology of Texas; Volume 1, Stratigraphy: University of Texas Bulletin, no. 3232, p. 15-238., Published July, 1933


Summary:

Pg. 167. Lake Trammel sandstone of Wrather is part or all of Whitehorse sandstone and is discarded.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1137).


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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