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| State | Texas |
|---|---|
| Name | Cloud Chief Formation |
| Geologic age | Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Permian [Guadalupe] |
| Original map label | Pcl |
| Comments | Mostly gypsum, white, gray, and ping. Also sandstone, sand, shale, gypsum, selenite, and dolomite, interbedded Sandst and sand fine-grain quartz, silty, locally gypsiferous, thin bedded -massive, shades of red mottled green. Shale sandy, massive, red. gypsum thin bedded - massive, white, pink. Dolomite, thin discont. beds assoc. with gypsum, gray. |
| Primary rock type | evaporite |
| Secondary rock type | shale |
| Other rock types | sandstone |
| Lithologic constituents | Major
Sedimentary > Chemical > Evaporite > Gypsum (Bed) Incidental
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed) Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > 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, 1974, Big Spring Sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas: University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, scale 1:250,000. |
| Geographic coverage | Hansford - Ochiltree |
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