Oligocene intrusive rocks (TXOGi;0)

State	Texas
Name	Oligocene intrusive rocks
Geologic age	Oligocene
Lithologic constituents	Major Igneous > Volcanic > Felsic-volcanic (Pyroclastic-tuff) Igneous > Volcanic > Felsic-volcanic > Trachyte Igneous > Volcanic > Mafic-volcanic > Basalt (Stock or pipe) Incidental Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > Granite (Stock or pipe)
Comments	stocks, laccoliths, sills, and dikes. Major rock types--basalt, hawaiite, mugearite, trachyte, quartz trachyte, rhyolite, phonolite, latite, trachyandesite, and their coarser grained equivalents. At Marble Canyon intrusive stock in Diablo Mtns, Culberson Co, 30 mi north of Van Horn, TX, (Price and Henry, 1986, p. 17), rocks are alkali gabbro, nepheline syenite dikes, quartz syenite at core of stock, also hybrid rock, numerous contact metamorphism and hydrothermal minerals reported. K-Ar ages about 33, 35, 36, 37, and 39.5 Ma (p. 22). Quitman-Sierra Blanca complex are caldera ring-dike intrusives and stocks: quartz monzonite, rhyolite, granite (laccolith). K-Ar age 33.9+-0.8 Ma (Shannon and Goodell, 1986).
References	Price, J.G., and Henry, C.D., 1986, Geology of Marble Canyon in Price, J.G., Henry, C.D., Parker, D.F., and Barker, D.S., eds., Igneous geology of Trans-Pecos Texas, field trip guide and research articles: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Guidebook 23, p. 17-26. Shannon, W.M. and Goodell, P.C., 1986, Lithochemistry of intrusive rocks of the Quitman-Sierra Balnce igneous complex, Hudspeth County, Texas in Price, J.G., Henry, C.D., Parker, D.F., and Barker, D.S., eds., Igneous geology of Trans-Pecos Texas, field trip guide and research articles: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Guidebook 23, p. 225-236. 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 - El Paso - Hudspeth - Jeff Davis - Presidio

State

Texas

Name

Oligocene intrusive rocks

Geologic age

Oligocene

Lithologic constituents

Major

Igneous > Volcanic > Felsic-volcanic (Pyroclastic-tuff)

Igneous > Volcanic > Felsic-volcanic > Trachyte

Igneous > Volcanic > Mafic-volcanic > Basalt (Stock or pipe)

Incidental

Igneous > Plutonic > Granitic > Granite (Stock or pipe)

Comments

stocks, laccoliths, sills, and dikes. Major rock types--basalt, hawaiite, mugearite, trachyte, quartz trachyte, rhyolite, phonolite, latite, trachyandesite, and their coarser grained equivalents. At Marble Canyon intrusive stock in Diablo Mtns, Culberson Co, 30 mi north of Van Horn, TX, (Price and Henry, 1986, p. 17), rocks are alkali gabbro, nepheline syenite dikes, quartz syenite at core of stock, also hybrid rock, numerous contact metamorphism and hydrothermal minerals reported. K-Ar ages about 33, 35, 36, 37, and 39.5 Ma (p. 22). Quitman-Sierra Blanca complex are caldera ring-dike intrusives and stocks: quartz monzonite, rhyolite, granite (laccolith). K-Ar age 33.9+-0.8 Ma (Shannon and Goodell, 1986).

References

Price, J.G., and Henry, C.D., 1986, Geology of Marble Canyon in Price, J.G., Henry, C.D., Parker, D.F., and Barker, D.S., eds., Igneous geology of Trans-Pecos Texas, field trip guide and research articles: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Guidebook 23, p. 17-26.

Shannon, W.M. and Goodell, P.C., 1986, Lithochemistry of intrusive rocks of the Quitman-Sierra Balnce igneous complex, Hudspeth County, Texas in Price, J.G., Henry, C.D., Parker, D.F., and Barker, D.S., eds., Igneous geology of Trans-Pecos Texas, field trip guide and research articles: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Guidebook 23, p. 225-236.

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 - El Paso - Hudspeth - Jeff Davis - Presidio