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Willow Point Formation

Willow Point Formation
StateTexas
NameWillow Point Formation
Geologic agePhanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Late [Missouri]
Original map labelIPwp
Commentsmapped as a formation on State Geologic Map of Texas, 1992. On the Sherman Sheet of Geologic Atlas of Texas (1967) this unit is "unranked limestone unit mapped separately at top of Palo Pinto Formation south and east of Lake Bridgeport in SW Wise Co., TX (Fort Worth syncline)". Limestone, aphanitic, snady and oolitic in southwest Wise Co., hard, thin to thick bedded, lt. olive gray; forms distinct bench; marine megafossils, thickness 2-7 ft
Primary rock typelimestone
Secondary rock type
Other rock types
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (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, 1967, Sherman Sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas: University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, scale 1:250,000.
Geographic coverageWise

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