- Usage in publication:
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- Lynch Creek bed
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Clay
- Sandstone
- Shale
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Bend arch
Summary:
Pg. 375. Lynch Creek bed in Strawn division. At base usually 50 to 75 feet of bluish sandy clay, graduating upward into shaly to massive sandstone and downward into shale. In places the sandstone is 75 to 100 feet thick. Basal member of Strawn division [Strawn is 2nd from base of 5 Carboniferous divisions of Cummins, 1891]. Unconformably overlies Bend division and underlies Burnt Branch bed. Age is Pennsylvanian.
[Named from Lynch Creek, west and northwest of Nix, Lampasas Co., Colorado River region, central TX.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1241).
- Usage in publication:
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- Lynch Creek bed
- Modifications:
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- Areal extent
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Fort Worth syncline
Summary:
Pg. 74. Lynch Creek bed in Strawn series. Sandy clay and shaly to massive sandstone. Overlies Bend division; underlies Burnt Branch bed. [Age is Pennsylvanian; age of Strawn not discussed.]
[Report area in Parker County, central Texas.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2282-2283); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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