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Buda Limestone stratigraphic column in Texas. The Buda Limestone is a geological formation in the High Plains and Trans-Pecos regions of West Texas [1] and in southern New Mexico, [2] whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Pterosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. [3]
Texas has been the leading state in petroleum production since discovery of the Spindletop oil field in 1901. [11] As of October 2017, the State of Texas (if treated as its own nation) is the 7th largest oil producing nation in the world, with production totaling approximately 3.78 million barrels (600 thousand cubic meters ) per day of oil ...
The Wilcox Group is an important geologic group in the Gulf of Mexico Basin and surrounding onshore areas from Mexico and Texas to Louisiana and Alabama. The group ranges in age from Paleocene to Eocene and is in Texas subdivided into the Calvert Bluff , Simsboro and Hooper Formations , [ 1 ] and in Alabama into the Nanafalia and Hatchetigbee ...
The Woodbine Group was first mapped and named by Robert T. Hill, known as the "Father of Texas Geology", for outcrops near the small town of Woodbine, Texas in 1901. [2] The Woodbine represents ancient river and delta systems that originated from erosion of the Ouachita Uplift in modern-day Oklahoma and Arkansas and the Sabine Uplift in modern ...
Cretaceous geology of Texas (66 P) D. Devonian Texas (1 P) J. ... Pages in category "Geologic formations of Texas" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of ...
The Texas and Oklahoma red beds are sedimentary rocks, mostly consisting of sandstone and red mudstone. [8] The red color of the rocks is due to the presence of ferric oxide . [ 9 ] The rocks were deposited during the early Permian in a warm, moist climate, [ 10 ] with seasonal periods of dry conditions.
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The Arroyo Formation, sometimes termed the Lower Clear Fork Formation, is a geologic formation in Texas. [1] It preserves fossils dating back to the Kungurian stage of the Permian period . [ 2 ] It is the lower-most portion of the Clear Fork Group , part of a series of fossiliferous Permian strata in the south-central United States known as the ...