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Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, Fritch, Texas, NRHP-listed; Uvalde Flint Quarry, Uvalde, Texas, NRHP-listed; Champion Stone Company, Lueder's Limestone quarry mining from the Lueders Basin outside Abilene, Texas with more than 100 years of Limestone reserves, 14 harvestable layers of limestone and over 12 color options.
Permian rocks are the best-known of the Texas Paleozoic. They are widespread in north Texas, where their characteristic red beds are spectacularly exposed in Palo Duro Canyon. The strata are also oil-rich where buried in west Texas, such as in the Midland and Odessa region. This crude oil-rich area is known as the Permian Basin.
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Texas, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation ... Anacacho Limestone: Cretaceous: Anahuac ...
This section is a list of generic types of limestone. Bituminous limestone; Carboniferous Limestone – Limestone deposited during the Dinantian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period; Coquina – Sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of fragments of shells; Coral rag – Limestone composed of ancient coral reef material; Chalk – Soft carbonate ...
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]
Alibates Flint Quarries was the only national monument in the state of Texas until the Military Working Dog Teams National Monument was created in 2013, and is adjacent to and managed together with Lake Meredith National Recreation Area.
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The oldest rocks in Texas date from the Precambrian, specifically the Mesoproterozoic and are about 1,600 million years old, and mark the southern limit of the North American craton. These rocks are mostly buried beneath Phanerozoic sediments, but are exposed in the Llano area, where previous Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks were ...