- Usage in publication:
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- Tuttle sandstone member
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Gulf Coast basin
Summary:
Pg. 166-171. Tuttle sandstone member of Manning formation. Name applied to sandstone, 5 to 50 feet thick, in Manning formation about 75 feet above Goodbread sandstone member (new). Separated from overlying Yuma sandstone member by shaly zone 30 to 60 feet thick. Renick (Univ. Texas Bull., no. 3619, 1936) called unit Dilworth on assumption that it was equivalent to Dilworth sandstone of Gonzales County, east-central Texas. [Age is late Eocene (Jackson).]
Type locality: in abandoned Southern Pacific RR right-of-way 1.5 mi north of Piedmont, Grimes Co., east-central TX.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 3992).
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