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Geologic Unit: Reklaw
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Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Reklaw Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:250k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sand
    • Clay
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Arkla basin
    • East Texas basin
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1966, Geologic atlas of Texas, Texarkana sheet: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000, Elias H. Sellards memorial edition


Summary:

Reklaw Formation. Quartz sand and clay. Upper part clay, silty, muscovitic, carbonaceous, laminated, brownish-black to brownish-gray; weathers light-brown to light reddish-brown, ironstone concretions common; thickness 35 feet. Lower part, quartz sand, fine- to very fine-grained, argillaceous, sparsely glauconitic, massiv, cross-bedded, grayish-green; weathers moderate brown to dark yellowish-orange with clay ironstone ledges and rubble; a few marine megafossils; thickness 10+/- feet. Lies above Carrizo Sand and below Queen City Formation. Age is Eocene.
[Mapped in southern part of map sheet, in Hopkins, Franklin, Camp, Titus, Morris and Cass Cos., northeastern TX, and Miller Co., southwestern AR.]

Source: Publication.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Reklaw Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Eargle, D.H., 1968, Nomenclature of formations of Claiborne Group, middle Eocene, coastal plain of Texas, IN Contributions to general geology, 1967: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1251-D, p. D1-D25.


Summary:

Pg. D4 (table 1), D7-D9. Reklaw Formation of Claiborne Group. Raised to formation rank (Mount Selman Formation abandoned). Consists of chocolate-colored shale with thin beds of glauconitic sand and of lignite. Thickness up to 400 feet. Distinguished on electric logs as zone of low resistivity (= basal Marquez Shale Member of Stenzel); contact with underlying Carrizo Sand placed at first principal break from fairly low resistivity to markedly higher resistivity [about 1,650 feet depth in Poth water well no. 3]. Underlies Queen City Sand. Equivalent to and intertongues with Bigford Formation in Rio Grande embayment south of Frio River, southern Texas. Age is middle Eocene.

Source: Publication; Changes in stratigraphic nomenclature, 1968 (USGS Bull. 1294-A, p. A15).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Reklaw Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:250k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Clay
    • Silt
    • Sand
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • East Texas 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:

Reklaw Formation. Includes from top down Marquez and Newby Members (not separately mapped). Thickness about 80 feet, forms fairly narrow prairie. Lies above Carrizo Sand and below Queen City Sand. Age is Eocene.
Mapped in Robertson, Leon, and Freestone Cos., eastern TX.

Source: Publication.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Reklaw Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:250k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
    • Clay
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1974, Geologic atlas of Texas, Seguin sheet: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000, Donald Clinton Barton memorial edition


Summary:

Reklaw Formation. Sandstone and clay; sandstone, fine- to medium-grained, abundant hematite, muscovite, and glauconite, friable to highly indurated, thin-bedded to massive, well developed cross-bedding, some pelecypod casts; clay, silty, lignitic, chocolate brown to light gray; weathers moderate brown and dark yellowish orange. Thickness about 50 to 80 feet. Overlies Carrizo Sand (Eocene); underlies Queen City Sand (Eocene). Age is Eocene.
Mapped in Wilson, Guadalupe, Gonzales, Caldwell, and Bastrop Cos., southeastern TX.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Reklaw Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:250k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Clay
    • Sand
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • East Texas basin
    • Arkla basin
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1975, Geologic atlas of Texas, Tyler sheet [revision of 1964 ed.]: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000, John T. Lonsdale memorial edition


Summary:

Reklaw Formation. Upper 100+/- feet, clay, brownish black to brownish gray, silty, muscovitic, carbonaceous, laminated, interbeds of moderate reddish-brown clay; weathers light brown, ironstone concretions common; a few marine fossils. Lower 15+/- feet, quartz sand, fine to very fine grained, grayish green, glauconitic, argillaceous, massive, locally cross-bedded; weathers moderate brown to dark yellowish orange with clay ironstone ledges and rubble; fossils, clay ironstone, and clay decrease northward. Occurs below Queen City Sand and above Carrizo Sand. Age is Eocene.
[Mapped in continuous and isolated outcrops throughout map sheet.]

Source: Publication.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Reklaw Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:250k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
    • Clay
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
    • Ouachita folded belt
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1982, Geologic atlas of Texas, San Antonio sheet [revision of 1974 ed.]: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, [9 p., revised 1983], scale 1:250,000, Robert Hamilton Cuyler memorial edition


Summary:

Pamphlet [p. 3]. Reklaw Formation. Sandstone and clay; sandstone, fine- to medium-grained, abundant hematite, muscovite, and glauconite, friable to highly indurated, thin-bedded to massive, well developed cross-bedding, some pelecypod casts; clay, silty, lignitic, chocolate brown to light gray, weathers moderate brown and dark yellowish orange; thickness 50+/- feet. Correlative with Bigford Formation (mapped west of Frio River). Overlies Carrizo Sand; underlies Queen City Sand. Age is Eocene.
[Mapped in narrow east-west trending belt east of Frio River, in Frio, Atascosa, Wilson, and Bexar Cos., southern TX.]

Source: Publication


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