The University of Texas Bulletin, Issue 1852University of Texas., 1912 - Geology |
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Acteonella ammonoids Anthracolitic Rocks appear basal base bituminous Black Mountains blue-gray brachiopods brownish buff-brown buff-gray calcareous calcite Camphophyllum Cerro Alto Chaetetes cherty Chester Clear Fork coarse coarse-grained Concealed conglomerate Cornudas correlated crinoid dark buff Diablo Mountains drab drilling east fault fauna feet thick fine-grained Follows text foot foraminiferal fossiliferous fossils Fusulina Gaptank gastropods Girty Glass Mountains Guadalupian hard higher beds Hueco Canyon Hueco escarpment Hueco formation Hueco Mountains Hueco Tanks igneous Interval intrusions Kansas light buff light gray Limestone Limestone and shale limestone beds Limestone weathering Magdalena and Manzano Magdalena group Manzano group marls marly massive beds Mexico miles Mississippian Mississippian rocks nodular north of Hueco number 51 Ordovician Pennsylvanian Permian platy Productus Pugnax Rancheria Mountain region road Runnels County Salt Flat sandstone sandy limestone Section H semi-lithographic Shakespeare Tank siliceous siliferous Silurian south side Spirifer stratigraphy structures surface Surv thin limestone thin-bedded unconformity upper Wichita stage Wolfcamp
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Page 7 - Pennsylvanian and Permian time is represented in the main by deposits of -the Magdalena and Manzano groups and the Hueco and Gym limestones ''. The other reference is in a paper entitled '' The PermoCarboniferous ammonoids of the Glass Mountains of West Texas, and their stratigraphic significance", by...
Page 23 - Warren waters form the front of a terrace on the south side of the road on the north side of the famous Havana glen.
Page 7 - Since the Manzano Series was described prior to the Hueco, the latter term should be dropped. Up to the present time the whole of the Hueco "formation" has been regarded as Pennsylvanian so far as printed references are concerned, except in two cases.
Page 8 - Mississippian rocks rest unconformably on the Silurian limestone. The local facies of the Mississippian rocks vary somewhat from place to place, though the main features are almost always present. North of Long Canyon nearly the whole series is made up of platy drab to dark-buff limestones which weather buff as a rule; with, locally, considerable chert in concretions, masses and layers, and some sandstone; all separated by thin layers of marl, weathering buff.
Page 16 - Evidences of bedding are so rare that it is often impossible to form an accurate idea of the prevailing angle of dip.
Page 9 - It is not certain that the whole section is visible at the location of Section C.