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| State | Texas |
|---|---|
| Name | Canyon Group, undivided |
| Geologic age | Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Missouri] |
| Original map label | IPcn |
| Comments | many hundreds of feet of interbedded mudstone, shale, sandstone, and limestone |
| Primary rock type | fine-grained mixed clastic |
| Secondary rock type | medium-grained mixed clastic |
| Other rock types | limestone |
| Lithologic constituents | Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mixed-clastic > Sandstone-Mudstone (Bed) Incidental
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)granular, pelleted, separated by shale, discontinuous, impure, locally argillaceous, sandy locally, locally oolitic, crinoid stems, small horn corals, pelecypods, bryzoa, sponge spicules, algae, few gastropods and ostracods, locally abdt fusulinids |
| 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, 1987, Wichita Falls-Lawton Sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas: University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, scale 1:250,000. Bureau of Economic Geology, 1972, Abilene sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, scale 1:250,000. Bureau of Economic Geology, 1976, Brownwood sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, scale 1:250,000. |
| Geographic coverage | McCulloch - Mason - Menard |
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