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| State | Texas |
|---|---|
| Name | Starke Limestone |
| Geologic age | Phanerozoic | Paleozoic | Silurian |
| Original map label | Ss |
| Comments | outcrop so small that on state map it is marked by a cross at a point. Medium-to coarse-grained, massive, pinkish-gray, locally brecciated; probably in a collapse structure, crops out in an area about 50 ft across, because exposures are discontinuous owing to soil cover, neither top, bottom, nor meaningful estimate of thickness can be given; type locality4,000 ft south-southeast of Max Starke Dam, another small outcrop on R.M Burnam Ranch 4.75 mi airline south-southeast of Marble Falls. |
| Primary rock type | limestone |
| Secondary rock type | sedimentary breccia |
| 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, 1981, Llano sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, scale 1:250,000. |
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