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Geologic Unit: Pawpaw
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Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Pawpaw Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Fort Worth syncline
    • Ouachita folded belt
    • Strawn basin
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1987, Geologic atlas of Texas, Dallas sheet [revision of 1972 ed.]: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, [10 p., revised 1988], scale 1:250,000, Gayle Scott memorial edition


Summary:

Pawpaw Formation. Claystone, mudstone, and sandstone. Claystone and mudstone, massive, slightly selenitic. Sandstone, fine- to very fine-grained, platy, ripple cross-laminations, light olive gray to medium gray. Forms grass-covered slopes. Thickness 10 to 25 feet, thins southward. Lies above Weno Limestone and below Main Street Limestone. Marine megafossils. Age is Early Cretaceous.
Not separately mapped. [Pawpaw and upper limestone unit of Weno, undifferentiated, mapped south of Fort Worth area, in Hill, Johnson, and Tarrant Cos., northeastern TX; Pawpaw, Weno, and Denton Clay, undifferentiated, mapped in Fort Worth area and northward, in Denton and Tarrant Cos., northeastern TX.]

Source: Publication.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Pawpaw Formation
    • Pawpaw Sandstone Member
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:250k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
    • Clay
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Fort Worth syncline
    • Ouachita folded belt
    • South Oklahoma folded belt
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1991, Geologic atlas of Texas, Sherman sheet [revision of 1967 ed.]: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, [17 p.], scale 1:250,000, Walter Scott Adkins memorial edition


Summary:

Pamphlet [p. 5]. Pawpaw Formation (Texas); Pawpaw Sandstone Member of Bokchito Formation (Oklahoma).
In Texas, sandstone, some sandy clay, ferruginous, ironstone concretions, loosely cemented, crossbedded; in Cooke and northern Denton Counties, alternates with red clay beds; at base 1- to 4-feet-thick "Quarry" limestone (=McNutt Limestone Member, unmapped, in Oklahoma), sandy, well-indurated, weathers to sandy ferruginous soil with abundant iron oxide concretions and rubble; thickness 25 to 60 feet, thins southward. Lies above Weno Limestone and below Main Street Limestone (not separately mapped). Age is Early Cretaceous.
In Oklahoma, sandstone, yellow to brownish-red, ferruginous, interbedded with gray to brown sandy clay; [thickness not stated]. Lies above Weno Clay Member of Bokchito Formation and below Bennington Limestone. Age is Early Cretaceous.
[Mapped in mostly continuous belts on both sides of Red River and southward to Lake Ray Roberts (btw. Sanger and Pilot Point); in Cooke, Denton, and Grayson Cos., northeastern TX, and Bryan, Love, and Marshall Cos., southeastern OK; northern and central part of map sheet. Pawpaw, Weno, and Denton mapped undifferentiated from Lake Ray Roberts area to southern edge of map sheet.]

Source: Publication.


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