State | Texas |
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Name | Honeycut Formation |
Geologic age | Early Ordovician |
Lithologic constituents | Major
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Dolostone (Bed)
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)
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Comments | Limestone and dolomite, thickly to thinly bedded, cherty; ls. aphanitic, lt-gray; dolomite mostly fine-grained to microgranular, lt- to medium-gray and yellowish-gray to brownish-gray; fossils perserved in chert include trilobites, cephalopods, the sponge Archaeoscyphia and gastropods including silicified Ceratopea; thickness 680 ft in SE area, truncated to NW by erosion. |
Stratigraphic units | Ellenberger Group |
References | Bureau of Economic Geology, 1976, Brownwood sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, 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 | Blanco - Burnet - Lampasas - Llano - San Saba |