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| State | Texas |
|---|---|
| Name | Wilcox Group, undivided |
| Geologic age | Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene Eocene |
| Original map label | EPAwi |
| Comments | Mostly mudstone, with various amounts of sandst., lignite, ironstone concretions, glauconitic; thickness about 1,000 ft. sand, mudst., clay, mudst. conglo., thickness as much as 300 ft. lower part mostly mudstone, thickness about 500 +- ft. Total thickness roughly 1,400-1,800 ft. |
| Primary rock type | fine-grained mixed clastic |
| Secondary rock type | coal |
| Other rock types | sand; clay or mud |
| Lithologic constituents | Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone (Glauconitic) Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mixed-clastic > Conglomerate-sandstone (Bed) Incidental
Sedimentary > Coal > Lignite (Bed) |
| Map references | Bureau of Economic Geology, 1992, Geologic Map of Texas: University of Texas at Austin, Virgil E. Barnes, project supervisor, Hartmann, B.M. and Scranton, D.F., cartography, scale 1:500,000 |
| Unit references | Bureau of Economic Geology, 1974, Austin Sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas, University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, scale 1:250,000. Bureau of Economic Geology, 1974, San Antonio Sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas, University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, scale 1:250,000. Bureau of Economic Geology, 1974, Seguin Sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas, University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, scale 1:250,000. Bureau of Economic Geology, 1972, Dallas sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, scale 1:250,000. |
| Geographic coverage | Anderson - Atascosa - Bastrop - Bexar - Bowie - Caldwell - Camp - Cass - Cherokee - Franklin - Freestone - Gonzales - Guadalupe - Harrison - Henderson - Hopkins - Kaufman - Marion - Medina - Milam - Morris - Nacogdoches - Navarro - Panola - Rains - Robertson - Rusk - Sabine - San Augustine - Shelby - Smith - Titus - Uvalde - Van Zandt - Wilson - Wood |
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