The scene is set. According to Indian legend, when the Great Creator made the earth and had finished placing the stars in the sky, the birds in the air, and the fish in the sea, there was a large pile of rejected stony materials left over. Finished with His job, He threw this into one heap and made the Big Bend.

The Davis Mountains are an erosional remnant of a volcanic field that probably covered 5 to 10 times their present areal extent of approximately 2,000 square miles. Many previous workers believed that much of the extrusive material in nearby parts of western Trans-Pecos Texas was erupted from the central Davis Mountains (Colton, 1957, p.

Geologic map that depicts the surface geology of Montague, Cooke, Grayson, Wise, Denton, and Collin Counties and parts of Jack, Fannin, Hunt, and Clay Counties, Texas. The 16-page booklet indicates geologic formations, abbreviations, and ages.

Geologic map that depicts surface geology of Crosby, Dickens, and King Counties and parts of Hale, Floyd, Motley, Cottle, King, Lubbock, Lynn, Garza, Kent, and Stonewall Counties. The Lubbock Sheet honors the late Dr.

Geologic map that depicts the surface geology of Nacogdoches, Shelby, San Augustine, Sabine, and Angelina Counties and parts of Anderson, Cherokee, Rusk, Newton, Jasper, Tyler, Polk, Trinity, Robertson, Madison, Leon, Freestone, and Panola Counties, Texas.