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  • Usage in publication:
    • Watt's Creek bed
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Clay
    • Limestone
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Bend arch
    • Llano uplift
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, 419. Watt's Creek bed in Cisco division. Mostly bluish and reddish sandy clay, with thin strata of limestone and sandstone. Thickness 50 to 75 feet. Member of Cisco division [Cisco is 2nd from top of 5 Carboniferous divisions of Cummins, 1891]. Underlies Horse Creek bed and overlies Camp Colorado bed. Age is Pennsylvanian.
[Named from Watts Creek, Coleman Co., Colorado River region, central TX.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2285).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Watts Creek shale 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. 24, 31; Univ. Texas Bull., no. 2132, p. 177, 181, 182, and charts. Watts Creek shale member, 50 to 75 feet thick, is basal member of Moran formation in Colorado River Valley. Underlies Horse Creek limestone member of Moran and overlies Camp Colorado limestone member of Pueblo formation.
Named from Watts Creek, Coleman Co., Colorado River region, north-central TX.
[Moran formation was transferred to Permian in 1933 (Sellards, Univ. Texas Bull. 3232).]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2285).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Watts Creek shale member*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
Publication:

Moore, R.C., 1948, [Title unknown], IN Cheney, M.G., leader, Study of Lower Permian and Upper Pennsylvanian rocks in Brazos and Colorado River Valleys of west-central Texas, particularly from Coleman Junction to Home Creek limestones: Abilene Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, Spring Field Trip, June 11-12, 1948.


Summary:

Sheets 3, 4. R.C. Moore, 1949, USGS Oil and Gas Inv. Prelim. Map 80, sheet 2. Watts Creek shale member of Moran formation. Underlies Gouldbusk limestone member (new); overlies Camp Colorado limestone member of Pueblo formation. Age is Early Permian (Wolfcamp).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 4150).


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