The Geology of the Glass Mountains - Part I, Descriptive Geology

BL3038. The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part I, Descriptive Geology, by P. B. King. 167 p., 43 figs., 1 color map, 15 plates, 1930. For Part II, please see BL3042D.


From the FOREWORD
This publication on the Geology of the Glass Mountains is the result of cooperative work between Yale University, the Bureau of Economic Geology of The University of Texas, and the authors. The work was begun by Philip and Robert King in the summer of 1925 and was aided financially by Charles Schuchert during 1926 and 1927 … [The research] is in two parts as follows: Part I, Descriptive Geology by Philip Burke King [this volume], and The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal Summary and Correlation of the Permian Formations With Description of Brachiopoda, by Robert E. King [BL3042D].


From the Abstract
This memoir describes the physiography, stratigraphy, and structure of the Glass Mountains and northern Marathon Basin in Trans-Pecos Texas. These two districts, which may collectively be spoken of as the Marathon region, are formed of Paleozoic rocks revealed by the erosion of a broad post-Cretaceous dome which lies slightly in front of the main Cordilleran ranges. The dome was originally sheeted over by Cretaceous rocks, which still surround it, and which rim the Paleozoic area in bounding escarpments.


Keywords: Glass Mountains, Marathon Basin, Marathon dome, Texas, Trans-Pecos Texas


Citation
King, P. B., 1930, The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Part I, Descriptive Geology: University of Texas, Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, UT Bulletin 3038, 167 p.