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| State | Texas |
|---|---|
| Name | Cienequita Formation |
| Geologic age | Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle Pennsylvanian-Late |
| Original map label | IPci |
| Comments | Alternating beds of quartz pebble conglomerate, ferruginous sandst., sandy shale, and brecciated masses of reef Limestone; ss fine grain, muscovitic, irreg bedding; ls in part locally derived limestone-pebble conglo. in part contains pebbles of vein quartz; some blk shale metamorphosed to hornfels; thickness more than 2,000 ft; exposed in no. part of Chinati Mtns. |
| Primary rock type | coarse-grained mixed clastic |
| Secondary rock type | sedimentary breccia |
| Other rock types | black shale; hornfels |
| Lithologic constituents | Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mixed-clastic > Conglomerate-sandstone (Bed) Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed) Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed) Incidental
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale > Black-shale (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, 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 |
| Geographic coverage | Presidio |
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