The rocks exposed in the Austin West quadrangle are Cretaceous marine limestones and clays and Quaternary alluvial deposits.

Geologic map that depicts the surface geology of Carson, Gray, and Wheeler Counties and parts of Moore, Hutchinson, Roberts, Hemphill, Potter, Randall, Armstrong, Donley, and Collingsworth Counties.

Sulfur, along with salt, coal, and limestone, is one of the basic raw materials of the chemical industry. A nation’s per capita sulfur consumption is a reliable index to its chemical production and a rough index to its standard of living.

Virgil and lower Wolfcamp rocks on the Eastern Shelf in North-central Texas are composed of several intergradational depositional systems comprising 1,200 to 1,500 feet of off-lapping, predominantly terrigenous sediments.

Upper Pensylvanian and lower Permian rocks of the Eastern Shelf in North-central Texas are composed of 10 to 15 repetitive sequences including open shelf, deltaic, fluvial, and interdeltaic depositional systems.

Tuff, tuffaceous sand and clay, bentonite, and sandstone containing abundant volcanic rock detritus are present in Gulf Coast Tertiary rocks ranging in age from Eocene to Pliocene.

Geologic map that depicts surface geology of Swisher, Briscoe, Hall, and Childress Counties and parts of Randall, Armstrong, Donley, Collingsworth, Hale, Floyd, Motley, and Cottle Counties.