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Missourian Facies In The Possum Kingdom Vicinity, Palo Pinto County, Texas, E. G. Wermund
Missourian Facies In The Possum Kingdom Vicinity, Palo Pinto County, Texas, E. G. Wermund
Journal of the Graduate Research Center
The uppermost Keechie Creek, the Palo Pinto, the Wolf Mountain, and the Winchell Formations of the Missourian Series were mapped in the Possum Kingdom vicinity, Palo Pinto County, Texas. The Keechie Creek and Wolf Mountain Formations are dominantly terrigenous facies. The Palo Pinto Formation is an off-bank facies which crops out immediately updip of an equivalent subsurface limestone bank. Both the bank and off-bank facies of the Winchell Limestone crop out in the study area. Typical Missourian terrigenous facies includes mostly unfossiliferous silty clay shales intercalated with a small volume of fine-grained sandstones. Away from equivalent limestone banks the shales …
A Preliminary Report On The Pennsylvanian Canyon Carbonates In North Central Texas, James E. Brooks, Peter Bretsky Jr.
A Preliminary Report On The Pennsylvanian Canyon Carbonates In North Central Texas, James E. Brooks, Peter Bretsky Jr.
Journal of the Graduate Research Center
The Canyon Group comprises an alternating sequence of limestone and shale formations, with sandstone members being common in the shales. The entire succession is crudely cyclic. Within the thickest limestone formation, the Winchell, detailed petrographic studies have shown the existence of regular vertical changes in texture. Three textural units occur, each commencing with arenitic textures at the base and grading upward to lutitic textures in the upper portion. These have been traced over several units and are believed to be referrable to regular changes in the depositional interface of the Winchell Bank with respect to energy base.
Foreword, James E. Brooks
Foreword, James E. Brooks
Journal of the Graduate Research Center
Study of the Pennsylvanian strata in north central Texas has spanned more than half a century and has progressed from general surveys to more detailed studies. The early investigations of the U. S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Economic Geology of the University of Texas have been supplemented by more recent studies which have been supported by various oil companies. Currently members of the geological faculties at Baylor, Southern Methodist and Texas Christian Universities together with several of their graduate students have undertaken more detailed studies of the Cisco, Canyon and Strawn Groups, respectively. The present volume is intended …
Pennsylvania Canyon Stratigraphy Of North Central Texas, Dan E. Feray, James E. Brooks
Pennsylvania Canyon Stratigraphy Of North Central Texas, Dan E. Feray, James E. Brooks
Journal of the Graduate Research Center
The Pennsylvanian strata of North Central Texas are divisible into three main lithostratigraphic units-in ascending order the Strawn, Canyon and Cisco Groups. The Strawn and Cisco are dominated by sandstones and shales, whereas the Canyon comprises alternating limestones and shales with subordinate sandstones. The subdivision of these units into component formations and members is complicated by the broadly lenticular nature of most of the sandstone and limestone bodies. Thus, for instance, shale formations which at one locality may be separated by a limestone formation may, at another locality, where the limestone has changed facies into shale, be in immediate juxtaposition …
Stratigraphy And Carbonate Petrology Of The Pennsylvanian Upper Canyon Group In Stephens And Palo Pinto Counties, Texas, Peter Bretsky Jr.
Stratigraphy And Carbonate Petrology Of The Pennsylvanian Upper Canyon Group In Stephens And Palo Pinto Counties, Texas, Peter Bretsky Jr.
Journal of the Graduate Research Center
The strata of Pennsylvanian age in north-central Texas dip gently and uniformly to the northwest. They are subdivided, in ascending order, into the Strawn, Canyon and Cisco Groups. The study area was limited to the upper part of the Canyon Group in Stephens and Palo Pinto counties. Four formations were mapped and the petrology described; they are, in ascending order, the Placid Shale, Ranger Limestone, Colony Creek Shale and Home Creek Limestone; also mapped were outliers of the Trinity Group (Cretaceous). All the formations show lateral and vertical lithologic changes; therefore detailed field tracing was necessary to insure accurate stratigraphic …
Echota Funeral Notices, Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
Echota Funeral Notices, Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
Journal of the Graduate Research Center
Chafe and Kilpatrick (1962, p. 61) state that "... it is not so well realized that Oklahoma [Cherokee] speech is far from homogeneous," and express the hope that "... a dialect survey of the area will be carried out while the language still enjoys a vitality approximating that which it has today." The purpose of this paper is to call attention to certain mortuary customs of a small group of Cherokees in west-central Adair County which speaks a distinctive dialect of the Cherokee language.
Significance Of Sharp Structural Boundaries, John W. Harrington
Significance Of Sharp Structural Boundaries, John W. Harrington
Journal of the Graduate Research Center
This paper raises the question of whether sharp structural boundaries define the existence of equally sharply limited tectonic force fields. If so, a new parameter and boundary condition is added in the search for quantitative means to study the deformation of the earth. The illustration of a sharply defined force field of lateral tension is taken from the eastern limit of the Basin and Range Province at Guadalupe Peak, Texas. Lateral compression is shown to have sharply defined qualities along the west side of the Valley and Ridge Province of the Appalachians and the Front Range of Colorado. Contrast is …
Notes On The Alluvial History Of The Lampasas River, Texas, E. P. Cheatum, Bob H. Slaughter
Notes On The Alluvial History Of The Lampasas River, Texas, E. P. Cheatum, Bob H. Slaughter
Journal of the Graduate Research Center
Excavations made in connection with the Stillhouse Hollow Dam construction in Bell County, Texas, offered an excellent view of almost complete sections of the floodplain and the two terraces developed in the valley at this point. In the process of work sponsored by the National Park Service, these sections were measured and their lithology recorded. A molluscan fauna was recovered from approximately two tons of sediments quarried from a shallow zone near the base of the T-1 terrace. A radio-carbon date from shells higher in the same terrace indicates an age of 4970 ± 250 B.P., according to the determination …
Third Bibliography And Index For The Philosophy Of Geology, Claude C. Albritton Jr.
Third Bibliography And Index For The Philosophy Of Geology, Claude C. Albritton Jr.
Journal of the Graduate Research Center
The following bibliography and index have the same scope and structure as the two preceding issues. The categories of writings here cited are also the same as listed in the front portion of the second bibliography.
The Texas Expenditure System: An Evaluation Of Its Growth And Needs, Walton Terry Wilford
The Texas Expenditure System: An Evaluation Of Its Growth And Needs, Walton Terry Wilford
Journal of the Graduate Research Center
Among the more perplexing problems facing state governments since World War II has been the need for substantial increments in the supply of state-supported social goods and services. The demand for these goods has risen considerably more rapidly than demand in the private sector, leading to enormous pressures on most state revenue structures. The State of Texas is no exception. Since 1947 structural problems have emerged within the administrative machinery of disbursing funds, new and expanded programs have been assumed at the state level, and Texas has been required to make important adjustments in its revenue structure. In 1961, faced …