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Vapor-Plume Deposits, K–Pg Boundary Outcrop in the Village of Armenia, Belize
David T. King, Jr. and Lucille W. Petruny
Facies Variability in Paleogeographic Trends from Core Data in the Lower and Middle Frio Formation in South Texas
Harold H. Rogers, III and William A. Ambrose
Lowstand valley fill and shelf-edge deltaic deposits in the Tannehill sandstone (Wolfcampian Cisco Group) in the Eastern Shelf of the Permian Basin are major targets for oil and gas exploration. The most-productive trends link coarse-grained alluvial systems in Baylor County to shelf-edge and upper-slope deepwater systems in Dickens County.
This map presents a graphic means for engineers, planners, and property owners to recognize and cope with the changes in substrate properties across this fault zone. Fault displacement has created a profound and abrupt change in land-use capabilities in this area. That is, the stable ground of the Austin Group is juxtaposed against the weak, plastic claystone units that make up the Taylor and Navarro Groups of Upper Cretaceous age. The mapping also explores the occurrence of a Late Cretaceous marine volcano, Pilot Knob, that is exposed in the south-central part of this quadrangle.