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Shaded relief map of the Llano Estacado. Texas contains a wide variety of geologic settings. The state's stratigraphy has been largely influenced by marine transgressive-regressive cycles during the Phanerozoic, with a lesser but still significant contribution from late Cenozoic tectonic activity, as well as the remnants of a Paleozoic mountain range.
Petroleum geology and the distribution of conventional crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids, East Texas basin, USGS Open-File Report 88-450K Author R.Q. Foote, L.M. Massingill, and R.H. Wells
Navarro Group stratigraphic column in Texas The Navarro Group is a geologic group in Arkansas , Texas and Coahuila , Mexico . It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period .
The Llano Uplift is a geologically ancient, low geologic dome that is about 90 miles (140 km) in diameter and located mostly in Llano, Mason, San Saba, Gillespie, and Blanco counties, Texas. It consists of an island-like exposure of Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks surrounded by outcrops of Paleozoic and Cretaceous sedimentary strata.
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Texas, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation ... "U.S. Geologic Names Lexicon ("Geolex ...
Cretaceous Formations of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Geologic map and the labeled geologic formations that lie directly beneath the surface in Dallas County Cretaceous formations of Texas Where the DFW Metroplex was located during the last super continent known as Pangea Placement of Tectonic Plates and DFW location around ≈94 million years ago The Cretaceous rocks in the DFW Metroplex ...
The Red Beds of Texas and Oklahoma are a group of Early Permian-age geologic strata in the southwestern United States cropping out in north-central Texas and south-central Oklahoma. They comprise several stratigraphic groups , including the Clear Fork Group , the Wichita Group , and the Pease River Group . [ 1 ]
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