Geologic map that depicts the surface geology of Mills County and parts of Runnels, Coleman, Brown, Comanche, Erath, Hamilton, Coryell, Lampasas, San Saba, McCulloch, Concho, and Menard Counties. The 21-page booklet indicates geologic formations, abbreviations, and ages.

Nelson and others (1962) define a bank as " ... a skeletal deposit formed by organisms which do not have the ecologic potential to erect a rigid wave-resistant structure." They explain that a bank may have any geometry.

Coal is found in six areas in Texas, including the large North-Central Texas field, a distinctive cannel coalfield in Webb County, and Late Cretaceous-age coals near Eagle Pass.

The Eastern Shelf was a constructional platform developed on the margin of the sediment-starved Midland Basin during Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian time. A mixed terrigenous-carbonate sedimentary province characterized the shelf during most of its history.

Geologic map that depicts the surface geology of Shackelford, Stephens, Palo Pinto, Callahan, and Eastland Counties and parts of Jones, Taylor, Runnels, Coleman, Brown, Comanche, Erath, Parker, and Hood Counties, Texas.

Lower Cretaceous sands have long been important aquifers in Central, North-Central, and North Texas. In recent years these sands also have been sources of high-silica industrial or specialty-purpose sand.

Based on need for convenient, small-scale cartographic units, the basal Cretaceous rocks in Texas from Red River to Burnet County and on the Callahan Divide are herein divided into three distinctive lithologic sequences.