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| State | Texas |
|---|---|
| Name | Delaho and Rawls Formations, undivided |
| Geologic age | Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Oligocene Miocene |
| Original map label | MO |
| Comments | sandstone and conglomerate, pebbles dominantly Tule Mountain Trachyandesite, basalt pebbles dominant in upper part to the south (in Emory Peak-Presidio Sheet (1979)); sandst. composed mostly of volcanic rock fragments; festoon crossbedding well developed; Smoky Creek Mbr. thickness as much as 1,100 ft. Lower unnamed member thickness about 1,100 ft, total about 2,200 ft thick. Rawls Fm--conglo., sandst., and tuff; basalt; bolson fill; trachyte; trachyandesite; latite porphyry; trachybasalt porphyry; ash-flow tuff. Rawls Fm as much as 1,200 ft thick. |
| Primary rock type | sandstone |
| Secondary rock type | conglomerate |
| Other rock types | trachyte; trachyandesite; latite; trachybasalt; basalt; ash-flow tuff; mudstone |
| Lithologic constituents | Minor
Igneous > Volcanic > Felsic-volcanic > Trachyte (Flow)ash-flow tuff and tuffaceous sediments Igneous > Volcanic > Felsic-volcanic > Rhyolite (Flow)ash-flow tuff and tuffaceous sediments Incidental
Igneous > Volcanic > Mafic-volcanic > Basaltic-andesite (Flow)ash-flow tuff and tuffaceous sediments Igneous > Volcanic > Mafic-volcanic > Basalt (Flow)ash-flow tuff and tuffaceous sediments Igneous > Volcanic > Felsic-volcanic > Latite (Flow)ash-flow tuff and tuffaceous sediments |
| 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, 1979, Emory Peak--Presidio Sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas, University of Texas at Austin. |
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