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Cherry Canyon Formation

Cherry Canyon Formation
StateTexas
NameCherry Canyon Formation
Geologic agePhanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Guadalupe]
Original map labelPcc
CommentsSandstone, siltstone, and limestone. Mostly very fine-grained quartz sandstone and siltstone, mostly noncalcareous, in part shaly, mostly thin bedded, some varvelike bedding and ripple marks, irregularly bedded channel fillings common in lower two-thirds. Locally persistent thin quartzite beds in lower part. Sandy limestone in thin beds, lenses, and nodules in a few places. Limestone, thin to thick bedded, some sandstone interbeds. WESTERN APACHE MTNS.--interbedded dolomite, limestone, and fine to very fine-grained dolomitic sandstone; basal 50 ft. exposed. Thickness 1,000 ft.
Primary rock typesandstone
Secondary rock typesiltstone
Other rock typeslimestone; dolostone (dolomite)
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstone (Bed)
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed)
Minor
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Dolostone (Bed)
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, 1968, Van Horn-El Paso Sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas: Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, scale 1:250,000.
Geographic coverageCulberson

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