State | Texas |
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Name | Older volcanic rocks of Davis and Barilla Mountains, including Sheep Pasture, Sleeping Lion, Frazier Canyon, Adobe Canyon, and Limpia formations, Gomez Tuff, Star Mountain Rhyolite, and Huelster Formation |
Geologic age | Late Eocene |
Lithologic constituents |
Major
Igneous > Volcanic > Felsic-volcanic > Rhyolite
Igneous > Volcanic > Felsic-volcanic > Trachyte
Incidental
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone
Sedimentary > Clastic > Conglomerate
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Comments | porphyritic rhyolite, quartz trachyte, trachyte tuffs and flows, some vitric-lith-crystal tuff and lapilli tuff and volcanic glass. Minor presence of thin layers of sandstone and conglomerate, lenses of fresh-water limestone and trachydoleritic lava |
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.Bureau of Economic Geology, 1982, Fort Stockton Sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas, University of Texas at Austin, scale 1:250,000.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. |
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Counties | Brewster - Culberson - Jeff Davis - Pecos - Presidio - Reeves |