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  • Usage in publication:
    • Parks Mountain bed
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
    • Conglomerate
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Drake, N.F., 1893, Report on the Colorado coal field of Texas, IN Fourth annual report of the Geological Survey of Texas, 1892: Geological Survey of Texas Annual Report, v. 4, p. 357-444. [Available online from the University of Texas-Austin library: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/dumble/]


Summary:

Pg. 387, 410. Parks Mountain bed in Cisco division. Massive sandstone and conglomerate, 10 to 70 feet thick. Member of Cisco division [Cisco is 2nd from top of 5 Carboniferous divisions of Cummins, 1891]. Overlies Lohn bed and underlies Chaffin bed. Age is Pennsylvanian.
[Named from Parks Mountain, Waldrip quadrangle, Coleman Co., Colorado River region, central TX.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1605).


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