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Canyon Group, undivided

Canyon Group, undivided
StateTexas
NameCanyon Group, undivided
Geologic agePhanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Missouri]
Original map labelIPcn
Commentsmany hundreds of feet of interbedded mudstone, shale, sandstone, and limestone
Primary rock typefine-grained mixed clastic
Secondary rock typemedium-grained mixed clastic
Other rock typeslimestone
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 coverageMcCulloch - Mason - Menard

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