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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

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
StateTexas
Nameolder 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 agePhanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene-Late
Original map labelEd
Commentsporphyritic 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 typerhyolite
Secondary rock typetrachyte
Other rock typeslava 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 coverageBrewster - Culberson - Jeff Davis - Pecos - Presidio - Reeves

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