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Volcanic Features of the Austin Area, Texas. Digital Download

AGS GB 26D

Volcanic Features of the Austin Area, Texas, by S. C. Caran, Todd Housh, and A. J. Cherepon. AGS Guidebook 26. Digital Version.

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Contents:

  • Blunn Creek; Travis High School
  • Implications of Volcanism at Blunn Creek Nature Preserve 
  • Stop 2: St. Elmo Road Railroad Cut 
  • Stop 3: Williamson Creek 
  • Stops 4: McKinney Falls State Park 
  • Stop 5A: Paleofauna of the “Pyroclastic Zone” 
  • Stop 5B: McKinney Falls Parkway, McKown Fm. 
  • Stop 6: Pilot Knob
  • Pilot Knob Volcano, Travis County, Texas (K. Young, et al., 1982) 
  • Stop 7: Onion Creek Greenbelt 
  • Stop 8 (Optional): Onion Creek Country Club 
  • Petrology and Geochemistry of the Balcones Igneous Province
  • The Kens Field “Serpentine Plug”
  • Age of the volcanic rocks and associated carbonate deposits 
  • Bibliography: Cretaceous Igneous Rocks in Texas

Volcanic Features of the Austin Area, Texas, by S. C. Caran, Todd Housh, and A. J. Cherepon. Guidebook 26, 124 p., 2006. AGS GB 26