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| State | Texas |
|---|---|
| Name | older volcanic rocks of Davis and Barilla Mountains, including Sheep Pasture, Sleeping Lion, Frazier Canyon, Adobe Canyon, and Limpia formations, Gomez Tuff, Star Mountain Rhyolite, and Huelster Formation |
| Geologic age | Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene-Late |
| Original map label | Ed |
| Comments | porphyritic rhyolite, quartz trachyte, trachyte tuffs and flows, some vitric-lith-crystal tuff and lapilli tuff and volcanic glass. Minor presence of thin layers of sandstone and conglomerate, lenses of fresh-water limestone and trachydoleritic lava |
| Primary rock type | rhyolite |
| Secondary rock type | trachyte |
| Other rock types | lava flow |
| Lithologic constituents | Major
Igneous > Volcanic > Felsic-volcanic > Rhyolite Igneous > Volcanic > Felsic-volcanic > Trachyte Incidental
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone Sedimentary > Clastic > Conglomerate Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone |
| 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, 1968, Van Horn-El Paso Sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas: Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, scale 1:250,000. Bureau of Economic Geology, 1982, Fort Stockton Sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas, University of Texas at Austin, scale 1:250,000. |
| Geographic coverage | Brewster - Culberson - Jeff Davis - Pecos - Presidio - Reeves |
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