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Pleistocene and Pliocene deposits, undifferentiated

TEXAS- Interfingering beds, tongues, and lenses of sand, silt, clay, gravel, sandstone, caliche, limestone, conglomerate, and volcanic ash. Includes Ogallala and Laverne Formations of Pliocene age and younger deposits of Pleistocene age. Locally the units are tightly cemented by calcium carbonate; other places, they are very poorly consolidated and nearly free of cementing materials. Thickness ranges from 0 to about 800 feet.
StateOklahoma
NamePleistocene and Pliocene deposits, undifferentiated
Geologic agePhanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary Quaternary | Pliocene Pleistocene
Original map labelToa
Primary rock typesand
Secondary rock typesilt
Other rock typesclay or mud; gravel; sandstone; limestone; conglomerate; volcanic ash
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Conglomerate (Bed)
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed)
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Gravel (Bed)
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Clay (Bed)
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Silt (Bed)
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand (Bed)
Map references
Heran, W. D., Green, G. and Stoeser, D. B., 2003, A Digital Geologic Map Database of Oklahoma: U. S. G. S. Open File Report 03-247
Unit references
Heran, W. D., Green, G. and Stoeser, D. B., 2003, A Digital Geologic Map Database of Oklahoma: U. S. G. S. Open File Report 03-247
Wood, P.R. and Hart, D.L. Jr, 1967, Availability of ground water in Texas County, Oklahoma: U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Investigations Atlas HA-250, scale 1:125,000, 3 sheets. (Geology on sheet 1 compiled by S.L. Schoff, 1939 and 1953.)
Cederstrand, J.R., 1996j, Digital geologic map of Texas County, Oklahoma: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-379, (1 diskette), URL address is: http://ok.water.usgs.gov/gis/geology
Geographic coverageCimarron - Texas

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