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Geologic Unit: Tule
Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Tule Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:250k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sand
    • Silt
    • Clay
    • Gravel
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Permian basin
Publication:

Barnes, V.E. (project director), 1993, Geologic atlas of Texas, Lubbock sheet [revision of 1967 ed.]: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geologic Atlas of Texas, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000, Halbert Pleasant Bybee memorial edition [Also available in GIS format: Texas Comm. Env. Quality (TCEQ), Austin, TX, 15-minute Digital GAT (Geologic Atlas of Texas) Quads, v. 3/01/2004, NW CD-ROM. GIS files, browse graphics: http://www.beg.utexas.edu/mainweb/services/15minquads.htm]


Summary:

Is Pleistocene formation mapped in southwestern part of map sheet in upper reaches of Double Mountain Fork Brazos River in southeastern Lynn and southwestern Garza Cos, TX (northeastern Permian basin). Map unit described as sand, silt, and clay, gravel at base. Sand, fine- to medium-grained quartz, silty in part, some caliche nodules, thin-bedded to massive, white, gray, brownish gray, grayish red. Silt and clay, locally bentonitic, indistinctly bedded, light gray, olive gray, greenish gray; weathers white, light gray, pink. Molluscan and vertebrate fossils. Thickness 85 ft, feathers out laterally. (Kansan)

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Tule Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Biostratigraphic dating
    • Geochronologic dating
    • Paleomagnetics
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Permian basin
Publication:

Bell, C.J., Lundelius, E.L., Jr., Barnosky, A.D., Graham, D.E., Lindsay, E.H., Ruez, D.R., Jr., Semken, H.A., Jr., Webb, S.D., and Zakrzewski, R.J., 2004, The Blancan, Irvingtonian, and Rancholabrean mammal ages, IN Woodburne, M.O., ed., Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic mammals of North America; Biostratigraphy and geochronology: Columbia University Press, 232-314.


Summary:

Pg. 240+ (fig. 7.1). Tule Formation. Recognized in Texas. Includes (descending): Lava Creek B ash (Pearlette type O), about 0.67 Ma; Mayfield Ranch fauna; Rock Creek fauna; Martin Ranch fauna; and Cerro Toledo X ash, about 1.2 to 1.3 Ma (by tentative correlation). Age is Irvingtonian NALMA; Matuyama to Brunhes chron zone (reversed polarity zone 1r.2r to normal polarity zone 1n).

Source: Publication.


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