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  • Usage in publication:
    • Littig glauconite member*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sand
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ouachita folded belt
Publication:

Plummer, F.B., 1933, The Cenozoic systems in Texas, Part 3, 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. 519-818., Published July, 1933


Summary:

Pg. 530, 535, 536, 550, 554. Littig glauconite member of Kincaid formation of Midway group. A bed of greenish-black, calcareous, glauconitic sand, from 8 inches to 15 or moree feet thick, forming basal member of Kincaid formation. Underlies Pisgah member. Weathers yellowish green or buff; contains phosphate nodules, small pebbles, shark's teeth, casts of fossils, and spherical calcareous concretions. Age is Eocene.
Type locality: in the road 1.5 mi by road south-southwest of Littig, on south side of Wilbarger Creek, [Elgin West 7.5-min quadrangle], Travis Co., eastern TX; see also H.J. Plummer, 1927, Univ. Texas Bull., no. 2644, pl. 1, sta. 61.

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1193).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Littig glauconitic member*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • East Texas basin
Publication:

Gordon, Mackenzie, Jr., Tracey, J.I., Jr., and Ellis, M.W., 1958, Geology of the Arkansas bauxite region: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 299, 268 p. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp299]


Summary:

Pg. 13. Littig glauconitic member of Kincaid formation of Midway group. In Texas, is basal member of Kincaid. Underlies Pisgah member. In southwestern Arkansas beds of highly glauconitic and phosphatic sand, probably representing the Littig, crop out at a few localities in eastern Hempstead and western Nevada Counties where they disconformably overlie the Arkadelphia marl. Age is Paleocene.

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2185).


  • Usage in publication:
    • Littig member
  • Modifications:
    • Biostratigraphic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • East Texas basin
Publication:

Kellough, G.R., 1959, Biostratigraphic and paleoecologic study of Midway Foraminifera along Tehuacana Creek, Limestone County, Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 9, p. 147-160.


Summary:

Pg. 150-152. Littig member of Kincaid formation of Midway group. Consists of dark-green sandy shale with streaks of sandstone containing much coarse elongate to free-form dark-green glauconite, shell fragments, fish teeth, phosphate, pebbles, coprolites, and Foraminifera. Thickness 7 feet. Is basal member of Kincaid formation. Underlies Pisgah member; unconformably overlies Upper Cretaceous Navarro formation. [Foraminifera listed.] The Littig lies in [locally defined] ALABAMINA MIDWAYENSIS LIMBATA zonule, [in lower part of] GLOBIGERINA COMPRESSA-DAUBJERGENSIS zone of Loeblich and Tappan (1957, p. 173-177). Lower part of member carries some reworked Cretaceous Foraminifera, mostly GLOBIGERINIDAE and HETEROHELICIDAE. Age is early Paleocene (Danian; Midwayan Provincial Age).

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2185).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Littig Member
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • East Texas basin
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1970, Geologic atlas of Texas, Waco sheet: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, [9 p.], scale 1:250,000, Lloyd William Stephenson memorial edition


Summary:

Littig Member of Kincaid Formation of Midway Group. Basal member of formation. Sand and Clay; sand very glauconitic, greenish black; clay, sandy, phosphatic nodules and pebbles present; weathers to yellow and yellowish-brown soil. thickness 10 to 120 feet, thins locally, forms mid-slope of cuesta formed by Tehuacama Member of Kincaid. Lies above Kemp Clay (Upper Cretaceous) and below Pisgah Member of Kincaid. Age is Eocene.
Not separately mapped. (Pisgah and Littig Members [undifferentiated] of Kincaid mapped in Falls, Limestone, and Navarro Cos., eastern TX.)

Source: Publication.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Littig Member
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1974, Geologic atlas of Texas, Seguin sheet: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000, Donald Clinton Barton memorial edition


Summary:

Littig Member of Kincaid Formation of Midway Group. Sand and clay; sand, very glauconitic, greenish black; clay, sandy, phosphatic nodules and pebbles present; weathers to yellow and yellowish-brown soil. Overlies Navarro Group (Upper Cretaceous); underlies Pisgah Member. Age is Eocene.
Not separately mapped. (Midway Group undivided mapped in Guadalupe and Caldwell Cos., southeastern TX.)

Source: Modified from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Littig Member
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sand
    • Clay
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ouachita folded belt
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1982, Geologic atlas of Texas, San Antonio sheet [revision of 1974 ed.]: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, [9 p., revised 1983], scale 1:250,000, Robert Hamilton Cuyler memorial edition


Summary:

Pamphlet [p. 4]. Littig Member of Kincaid Formation of Midway Group. Sand, clay, and limestone; sand very glauconitic, greenish black; clay, sandy, phosphatic nodules and pebbles present; limestone, very glauconitic, sandy, fossiliferous; weathers to yellow and yellowish brown soil. Is basal member of Kincaid Formation. Lies below Pisgah Member of Kincaid Formation and above Upper Cretaceous Escondido Formation. Age is Eocene.
Not separately mapped. [Pisgah and Littig Members, undifferentiated, mapped as small outlier along tributary of Nueces River, southeast of Sulphur Mountain, southern Uvalde Co., southern TX; southwestern corner of map sheet.]

Source: Publication.


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