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Correlation between surface and subsurface sections of the Ellenberger Group of Texas Correlation between surface and subsurface sections of the Ellenberger Group of Texas 1952

The Ellenburger of Texas was first defined as a marine limestone formation of Cambrian and Ordovician age (Paige, 1912), but recently it has been subdivided into several formations and the term Ellenburger given group status (Cloud and Barnes, 1948).

Hendricks, Leo Bureau of Economic Geology
Geologic map of the Stonewall quadrangle, Gillespie and Kendall Counties, Texas Geologic map of the Stonewall quadrangle, Gillespie and Kendall Counties, Texas 1952

Stonewall quadrangle is south of the Llano region and is in the marginal portion of the Edwards Plateau where much of the plateau surface has been destroyed by erosion.

Barnes, V.E. Bureau of Economic Geology
Geology of the Blacklands Experimental Watershed, near Waco, Texas Geology of the Blacklands Experimental Watershed, near Waco, Texas 1952

The Blacklands Experimental Watershed, a hydrologic research project of the Soil Conservation Service located about 15 miles southeast of Waco, Texas, is underlain by marls and chalks belonging to the Taylor group of the Gulf series of the Cretaceous system, which, in conformity with the general

Lonsdale, J.T. Bureau of Economic Geology
Boundary of the Pennsylvanian and Permian(?) in the subsurface Scurry reef, Scurry County, Texas Boundary of the Pennsylvanian and Permian(?) in the subsurface Scurry reef, Scurry County, Texas 1952 Heck, W.A., Yenne, K.A., Henbest, L.G. Bureau of Economic Geology
Recognition of Hipparions and other horses in the middle Miocene Mammalian faunas of the Texas Gulf region Recognition of Hipparions and other horses in the middle Miocene Mammalian faunas of the Texas Gulf region 1952

New information concerning the ancestry of the later Tertiary horses, Calippus, Protohippus (in the original sense), Hipparion, Neohipparion, and Nannippus, has been obtained from a restudy of the various mammalian farmas of the Coastal Plain in Texas, based in the main on the extensive collectio

Quinn, J.H. Bureau of Economic Geology
Geologic map of the Squaw Creek Quadrangle, Gillespie and Mason Counties, Texas Geologic map of the Squaw Creek Quadrangle, Gillespie and Mason Counties, Texas 1952

The Squaw Creek quadrangle is partly within the Llano region and partly within the Edwards Plateau province.

Barnes, V.E. Bureau of Economic Geology
Agua Fria quadrangle, Brewster County, Texas Agua Fria quadrangle, Brewster County, Texas 1951 Moon, C.G. Bureau of Economic Geology
Pegmatites of the Van Horn Mountains, Texas Pegmatites of the Van Horn Mountains, Texas 1951

Zoned and unzoned perthite-quartz-plagioclase-muscovite pegmatites in the form of tabular bodies, irregular bodies with tabular branches, irregular masses, elongate lenses, lit-par-lit zones, and small augen and stringers are distributed throughout the Precambrian metasedimentary rocks of the Mic

Flawn, P.T. Bureau of Economic Geology
Buried Hill at Wilcox-Carrizo Contact in East Texas Buried Hill at Wilcox-Carrizo Contact in East Texas 1951

A recently discovered buried hill, at least 77 feet high, is composed of strata of the Wilcox group (lower Eocene) and covered on its flanks by cross-bedded sands of the lower Carrizo and at the top by level-bedded shales and silts of the upper Carrizo formation.

Stenzel, H.B. Bureau of Economic Geology
Geologic map and structure sections of the Christmas and Rosillos Mountains, Brewster County, Texas Geologic map and structure sections of the Christmas and Rosillos Mountains, Brewster County, Texas 1951 Bloomer, R.R. Bureau of Economic Geology