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  • Usage in publication:
    • Mount Tabor shale member
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Silt
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Stenzel, H.B., 1938, The geology of Leon County, Texas: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Publication, no. 3818, 295 p.


Summary:

Pg. 20 (table), 151-154, 159. Mount Tabor shale member of Crockett formation. Name applied to uppermost member of Crockett formation. Consists of interbedded silts and shales in upper part and chiefly brown shales in lower part. Thickness varies from 45 feet at type locality to as much as 100 feet in easter part of area. Overlies Spiller sand member (new) with contact transitional; underlies Yegua formation with boundary placed where sands become more abundant than shales. [Age is middle Eocene (Claiborne).]
Type locality: in east ditch of U.S. Highway 75, on slope north of Mount Tabor School, Madison Co., eastern TX.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2642).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Mount Tabor shale member
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Stenzel, H.B., 1939, The Yegua problem, IN Contributions to geology, 1939: University of Texas Publication, December 1, 1939, no. 3945, pt. 2, p. 847-910.


Summary:

Pg. 859 [1940]. Mount Tabor shale member of Crockett formation. Includes Serbin sand lentil (new) at top. [Age is middle Eocene (Claiborne).]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2642).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Mount Tabor shale member
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • East Texas basin
Publication:

Stenzel, H.B., 1940, New zone in Cook Mountain formation, the Crassatella texalta Harris-Turritella cortezi Bowles zone [Texas]: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 24, no. 9, p. 1663-1675.


Summary:

Pg. 1664, 1665, 1671 (fig. 3). Mount Tabor shale member of Cook Mountain Formation. Reallocated to member status in Cook Mountain formation. [Age is middle Eocene (Claiborne).]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2642).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Mount Tabor Member
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast 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:

Mount Tabor Member of Cook Mountain Formation. Top member of Cook Mountain. Clay and marly sand, gray to brown. Thickness about 50 feet. Lies above Spiller Member of Cook Mountain and below Yegua Formation. Marine megafossils. Age is Eocene.
Not separately mapped. (Cook Mountain [undivided] mapped in southeastern corner of map sheet in Madison and Leon Cos., eastern TX.)

Source: Publication.


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