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Geologic Unit: Sweetwater
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Sweetwater dolomite†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Permian basin
Publication:

Cheney, M.G., 1929, Stratigraphic and structural studies in north-central Texas: University of Texas Bulletin, no. 2913, 29 p.


Summary:

Pg. 26. †Sweetwater dolomite. Replaced this (preoccupied) name with Claytonville dolomite, which E.H. Sellards (Univ. Texas Bull., no. 3232, p. 167, 1933) also adopted, instead of Sweetwater (preoccupied) and included it in Peacock formation.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2099).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Sweetwater dolomite
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Dolomite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Permian basin
Publication:

Lloyd, A.M., and Thompson, W.C., 1929, Correlation of Permian outcrops on eastern side of the West Texas Permian basin: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 13, no. 8, p. 945-956. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pg. 953, pl. 10. Sweetwater dolomite. Thin, persistent dolomite, in places fine-grained and sandy and in places coarsely crystalline; 1 to 3 feet thick. Directly underlies the Triassic in southwestern Fisher County and northern Nolan County, central northern Texas. Age is Permian.
Strikes N. 30 degrees W. through city of Sweetwater, [Nolan Co.], central northern TX, and is named after its outcrop there.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2099); GNC Texas Corr. Chart, sheet 3, Sept. 1930.


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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