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Matt Engle, Timothy Fedor, Patrick Glass, Mary Hangen, Kurt Hellmich
• Strawn Group
• Canyon Group
• Cisco Group
Bend Group
• Marble Falls limestone: Interbedded cherty
and non-cherty limestone with shale.
Commonly believed to be an unconformity
at the Miss/Penn Boundary.
• Lower: light to dark chert limestone and thin
shale beds. About 30m thick but ranges from
21-45m in some areas.
• Upper: light to dark algal biomicrite and shale.
Facies oriented in N-S in contrast to lower
marble falls. About 82m thick.
Bend Group
• Smithwick Shale: 400 feet thick of dark gray
claystone, grades into interbedded sandstone and
claystone.
• Claystone is composed of illite, quartz and
muscovite silt.
• The sandstone indicates the source area was
composed of sedimentary and granitic plutonic
rocks with low-grade metamorphic and volcanic
rocks. (American Geological Institute).
Strawn Group
• Composed of massive conglomerate
sandstone, and alternating sandy shale.
http://aapgbull.geoscienceworld.org/content/47/10/1840.short
Canyon Group
• Massive limestone with alternating shale
• Can be up to 250ft thick
• Limestone described as thinly bedded, fine
grained and cherty
• Shale is yellow to grey and described as clayey.
Cisco Group
• Composed of sandy shale, sandstone, thin
limestone beds, and some coal
• Thin limestone beds described as fine grained
yellow to grey
Harpersville Formation
http://northtexasfossils.com/harpersville.htm
Journal
of
Geology
http://www.jstor.org/stable/30063569?seq=7
Cretaceous Groups
• Trinity Group
• Fredericksburg Group
• Washita Group
Trinity Group
• Upper Trinity: Upper Glen Rose
http://www.seriouslyfunnyscience.com/node/69
Limestone trace fossils
http://www.seriouslyfunnyscience.com/node/69
Fredericksburg Group
• Walnut Formation: 70 to 80 feet of marly
limestone, alternating with harder more
crystalline limestone and limy clay.
• Comanche Peak: white, irregularly bedded,
nodular limestone interbedded with marl.
• Edwards: massive limestone beds with bands of
chert nodules and rudistid biostromes (tube
shaped bivalves).
• Kiamichi: a light brown to gray, argillaceous
(resembles clay) limestone.
Washita Group
• Georgetown Formation: light grey chalky
limestone and marl
http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/sunstar/geology/CristoRey/mid-Cretaceous.htm
Buda Formation
http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/sunstar/geology/CristoRey/mid-Cretaceous.htm