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  • Usage in publication:
    • Overall Limestone [unranked]
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1987, Geologic atlas of Texas, Wichita Falls-Lawton sheet: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000, Alfred Sherwood Romer memorial edition [Also available in GIS format: Texas Comm. Env. Quality (TCEQ), Austin, TX, 15-minute Digital GAT (Geologic Atlas of Texas) Quads, v. 3/01/2004, NW CD-ROM. GIS files, browse graphics: http://www.beg.utexas.edu/mainweb/services/15minquads.htm]


Summary:




Shown as a unit [unranked] in upper part of Admiral Formation of Albany Group, and separately mapped. Present in Throckmorton Co, north-central TX on Bend arch. Is gray to dark brown, fine to coarse grained, bioclastic, platy to thin bedded, burrowed, desiccation-cracked, locally sandy and argillaceous, with a discontinuous outcrop. In southern part of Throckmorton Co, composes a zone 5-15 ft thick of as many as three thin, lenticular limestone beds, argillaceous; beds contain mudstone clasts and carbonaceous fragments, intercalated with tan and red mudstone, locally grading to calcareous sandstone. Fossils are mostly pelecypods (MYALINA), phylloid algae, and brachiopods. Thickness is 2-15 ft. Age is Wolfcamp (Early Permian). Geologic map.

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


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