The first entry in the Guidebook Series details a field excursion to the Eastern Llano Region of Central Texas in 1958. Retrace the footsteps of Virgil Barnes and the other state geologists in attendance: 

Stop 1. Honeycut Bend

Pleistocene-age fossil horses of Texas belong to at least three faunal assemblages. The oldest contains Hippotigris (= Plesippus) which disappeared before Yarmouthian time.

Fourteen black-and-white geologic maps prepared in 1957 and 1959 and obtained from the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, and sold by the Bureau of Economic Geology. Geology compiled by F. L. Whitney; drafted by S. Espey, W. M. Strong, or W. L. Brooks; edited by K. P.

This paper brings part of the classification of upper Albian ammonites up to date and up to modern standards for some of the Texas species. Twelve new species are described (Drakeoceras georgetownense, D. drakei, D. arringtoni, D.kummeli, D. gabrielense, D. dellense, D.

In the Great Plains the succession of gross ecological conditions through Neogene and Quaternary time may be interpreted from the stratigraphy, geomorphological history, buried soils, and fossil mollusks and plants.

Uranium was discovered near Tordilla Hill in Karnes County, south-central Texas, in the fall of 1954, in the upper part of the Jackson formation of late Eocene age.

The Devonian-Mississippian transition outcrops of central Texas are here described summarily and assigned to a new stratigraphic unit, the Houy Formation. The beds included are mainly Upper Devonian, but partly Lower Mississippian. Locally a basal fraction may be Middle Devonian.

The eastern margin of the High Plains in central western Texas affords particularly good opportunity for study of late Cenozoic geology.

Fall Prong quadrangle is in the marginal portion of the Edwards Plateau near the southeastern corner of the Llano region. Almost three-quarters of the quadrangle is within the Edwards Plateau, and the rest consists of valleys of the Llano basin cutting back into the plateau.