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Publication Year
2021
Series
Report of Investigations
Abstract

Proterozoic exposures in the Llano Uplift of Central Texas and in the Van Horn area and other smaller areas of western Texas represent less than one percent of the area underlain by Precambrian basement. The geologic units of the Llano Uplift are dominated by felsic gneiss (34 percent), schist (26 percent), and granite (39 percent) that formed during the Mesoproterozoic Grenville orogeny. These lithologies likely form a significant component of the contiguous Texas basement under Phanerozoic strata.