Virtual Landscapes of Texas

University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology

University of Texas publication Volume no. 6711

1967

Maxwell, Ross A.

University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology

Geology -- Texas -- Big Bend National Park

Accompanied by 12 foldout plates and figures -- Plate 1 : Index map, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. Plate 2 : Geologic map, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. Plate 3 : Structure sections, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. Plate 4 : Geologic map of Persimmon Gap-Dog Canyon area, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. Plate 5 : Structure sections, Persimmon Gap-Dog Canyon area, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. Plate 6 : Stratigraphic sections of Comanchean rocks, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. Plate 7 : Stratigraphic sections of Gulfian rocks, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. Plate 8 : Correlation chart of Cretaceous formations, Brewster, Terrell, and Val Verde counties, Texas. Plate 9 : Stratigraphic sections of Paleocene and Eocene rocks, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. Plate 10 : Stratigraphic sections of Tertiary volcanic rocks, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. Plate 11 : Structural features of Trans-Pecos Texas and northeastern Mexico. Figure 11 : Panoramic view, basin of the Chisos Mountains. Figure 67 : The canoe-shaped syncline from which the name Canoe Formation was taken. Figure 69 : Basalt, tuff, tuffaceous clay, and sandstone conglomerate in the Canoe Formation at the type locality, southeastern Tornillo Flat. Figure 78 : Bee Mountain, the type locality of the Bee Mountain Basalt. Figure 80 : Type locality of the Mule Ear Spring Tuff. Figure 133 : Overturned fold and thrust faults at Dog Canyon. Figure 135 : Terlingua fault escarpment at mouth of Santa Elena Canyon from about 5 miles distance. Figure 146 : Sketch from photographs of panoramic view from south rim of the Chisos Mountains. Figure 148 : Looking southwest across the dipping strata on the flank of the Glenn Springs laccolith, toward Elephant Tusk

xvi, 320 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + portfolio (12 fold. plates (incl. maps, part col.))

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