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| State | Texas |
|---|---|
| Name | Cow Creek Limestone, Hammett Shale, and Sycamore Sand, undivided |
| Geologic age | Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Early |
| Original map label | Kcs |
| Comments | Cow Creek Limestone--limestone, massive, off-white,in part honeycombed (coquinite with fossils dissolved), fossiliferous; thicknes about 60 ft, lower part covered. Hammett Shale--sandy and silty, med.gray, oyster beds, at base gravel of Ellenberger rocks; thickness 60 ft. Sycamore Sand--sand, silt, clay, and conglomerate of variable thickness. |
| Primary rock type | limestone |
| Secondary rock type | shale |
| Other rock types | fine-grained mixed clastic |
| Lithologic constituents | Major
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed) Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale > Black-shale (Bed) Sedimentary > Clastic > Mixed-clastic > Sandstone-Mudstone (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, 1981, Llano sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, scale 1:250,000. |
| Geographic coverage | Blanco - Burnet - Hays - Travis |
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