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  • Usage in publication:
    • Stockwether bed
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
    • Chert
  • 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, 417. Stockwether bed in Cisco division. Mostly hard, rather brittle, rough-weathering gray, containing yellowish or light-colored chert nodules. Thickness 15 to 25 feet. Member of Cisco division. Overlies Coon Mountain bed and is separated from overlying Camp Colorado limestone by bed No. 13 (40 to 75 feet of clay, mostly reddish). [Age is Pennsylvanian.]
[Named from the Stockwether Ranch, on Bull Creek, in Coleman Co., Colorado River region, central TX.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2067).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Stockwether limestone member
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Plummer, F.B., and Moore, R.C., 1922, Stratigraphy of the Pennsylvanian formations of north-central Texas: University of Texas Bulletin, no. 2132, 237 p.


Summary:

Pg. 172, 174, and charts; Jour. Geol., v. 30, p. 24, 31. Stockwether limestone member of Pueblo formation. Overlies Camp Creek shale member of Pueblo formation and is separated from overlying Camp Colorado limestone member of Pueblo by shale bed No. 13 of Drake. The Coon Mountain bed of Drake is largely Cretaceous.
Named from the Stockwether Ranch, on Bull Creek, in Coleman Co., Colorado River region, central TX.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2067).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Stockwether limestone member*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1936, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1935-1938) on Carboniferous and Permian rocks of Texas], IN Wilmarth, M.G., 1938, Lexicon of geologic names of the United States (including Alaska): U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 896, pts. 1-2, 2396 p.


Summary:

Wallace Lee and C.O. Nickell (manuscript ready for publication by Texas Geol. Survey) define Stockwether limestone member of Pueblo formation as overlying Coon Mountain sandstone member, which rests on Camp Creek shale member of Pueblo formation. This is approved definition of the USGS.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2067).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Stockwether formation
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Cheney, M.G., 1940, Geology of north-central Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 24, no. 1, p. 65-118. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Stockwether formation of Pueblo group. Rank raised to formation in the Pueblo here given group status. Includes Coon Mountain sandstone member. Underlies Camp Colorado formation; overlies Saddle Creek formation. [Age is Early Permian (Wolfcamp).]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 3728-3729).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Stockwether limestone member*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Moore, R.C., 1949, Rocks of Permian(?) age in the Colorado River Valley, north-central Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations Preliminary Map, OM-80, 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360


Summary:

Sheet 2. Stockwether limestone member of Pueblo formation. Described in Colorado River Valley as limestone member of Pueblo formation. Typically fine-grained limestone containing numerous thin clear calcite veinlets and white porcelain-like foraminiferal remains; beds are uneven, to medium in thickness, and weather slabby. Thickness 5 to 30 feet, average 20 feet. Underlies Salt Creek Blend shale member; overlies Camp Creek shale member. [Age is Early Permian (Wolfcamp).]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 3728-3729).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Stockwether member
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Stafford, P.T., 1960, Stratigraphy of the Wichita group in part of the Brazos River Valley, north Texas, IN Contributions to general geology, 1958: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1081-G, p. 261-280, (incl. geologic map, scale 1:125,000)


Summary:

Pg. 268-269. Stockwether member of Pueblo formation. Geographically extended into Brazos River Valley. Thickness 0.5 to 3 feet. Overlies Camp Creek shale member; underlies Salt Creek Bend shale member. [Age is Early Permian (Wolfcamp).]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 3728-3729).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Stockwether Limestone [unranked]
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:250k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1972, Geologic atlas of Texas, Abilene sheet: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, [16 p.], scale 1:250,000, Frederick Byron Plummer memorial edition


Summary:

Stockwether Limestone [unranked] in Pueblo Formation of Cisco Group. Fine-grained, locally argillaceous. South of Cretaceous divide contains gray and brown chert distributed irregularly through an interval of about 2 feet, gray to light brown, locally cut out by broad channel fills, some crinoid columnals and burrow casts in basal part. Thickness 1 to 12 feet, in central area 1 to 3 feet, feathers out northward near U.S. Highway 180. Lies above Saddle Creek Limestone [unranked] in Pueblo Formation and below Camp Colorado Limestone ("Noodle Creek Limestone") [unranked] in Moran Formation of Cisco Group. Age is Early Permian (Wolfcampian).
Mapped in Brown, Eastland, and Stephens Cos., central northern TX. [See also adjacent Geol. Atlas Texas, Brownwood sheet, 1976, to south.]

Source: Publication.


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Stockwether Limestone [unranked]
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:250k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
    • Llano uplift
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1976, Geologic atlas of Texas, Brownwood sheet: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000, Monroe George Cheney memorial edition


Summary:

Stockwether Limestone [unranked] in middle of Pueblo Formation of Cisco Group. Microgranular to north, medium-grained to south, abundant light-colored chert to south, generally resistant, very light gray to light yellowish gray, weathers light gray to dark gray, commonly cut out to north by channel-fill bodies, forms scarp to
south, generally unfossiliferous, some crinoid fragments, bryozoa, and algae near top; thickness 2 to 4 feet in north, 15 to 18 feet in south. Lies above Camp Creek Shale and below Salt Creek Bend Shale [both unranked] in Pueblo. Age is Early Permian (Wolfcampian).
[Mapped in Brown, Coleman, and McCulloch Cos., central TX.]

Source: Publication.


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