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Geography and geology of the Black and Grand prairies, Texas, with detailed descriptions of the Cretaceous formations and special reference to artesian waters

GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY OF THE BLACK AND
GRAND PRAIRIES, TEXAS.

PART I.
GEOGRAPHY OF THE TEXAS REGION.

THE STATE OF TEXAS.

OUACHITA SYSTEM.

MOUNTAINS OF TRANS-PECOS PROVINCE.

CLASSIFICATION OF PLAINS BY ORIGIN.

PLAINS OF TILE REGIONAL COASTWARD SLOPE.

THE GREAT PLAINS.

THE PRAIRIE PLAINS.

PLAINS OF THE EAST-CENTRAL PROVINCE.

PLAINS OF THE CENTRAL PROVINCE.

THE COASTAL PLAIN.

PLAINS OF THE TRANS-PECOS PROVINCE.

Types of Streams.

Direction of Flow.

Classification of the Drainage.

Résumé of the Drainage System.

PART II.
GEOGRAPHY OF THE BLACK AND GRAND PRAIRIES ANDCROSS TIMBERS (EAST-CENTRAL PROVINCE).

RELATIONS AND SOILS.

BELTS OF COUNTRY.

THE BLACK PRAIRIE SUBPROVINCE

THE EASTERN CROSS TIMBERS.

THE GRAND PRAIRIE SUBPROVINCE.

THE MAIN TEXAS SUBDIVISION.

LAMPASAS CUT PLAIN.

SUBDIVISION'S OF LAMPASAS CUT PLAIN.

PART III.
GEOLOGY OF THE BLACK AND GRAND PRAIRIES.

BASEMENT ROCKS OF THE BLACK AND GRAND PRAIRIES.

Azoic Rocks. ¹

Paleozoic Sedimentary Rocks.

CAMBRIAN ROCKS.

SILURIAN ROCKS.

ORDOVICIAN OR LOWER SILURIAN ROCKS.

UPPER SILURIAN ROCKS.

CARBONIFEROUS AND PERMO-TRIASSIC ROCKS.

EXTENT, SUBDIVISIONS, AND GENERAL RELATIONS.

OCCURRENCE IN PARALLEL BELTS.

CARBONIFEROUS FORMATIONS.

SMITHWICK DISTRICT.

COLORADO DISTRICT.

PALO PINTO DISTRICT.

CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS OF THE NORTHERN BORDER REGION.

PERMO-CARBONIFEROUS STRATA.

PERMO-TRIASSIC RED BEDS

EXTENT AND SUBDIVISIONS.

THE ALLEGED TRIASSIC.

SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF THE PALEOZOIC ERA.

CRETACEOUS ROCKS.

Introductory Statement.

General Occurrence and Relations.

Character and Origin of the Rocks.

Succession of the Rocks.

Classification of the Rocks.

DEFECTS OF EARLY CLASSIFICATION.

REFINEMENT OF THE NOMENCLATURE.

Three Typical General Sections.

SECTION NO. 1.-DENISON OR RED RIVER SECTION.

SECTION NO. 3.-AUSTIN OR COLORADO RIVER SECTION.

Lower Cretaceous-Comanche Series.

TRINITY DIVISION.

CHARACTER AND GENERAL OCCURRENCE.

BASEMENT SANDS.

GLEN ROSE FORMATION.

DETAILED STRATIGRAPHIC SECTIONS OF GLEN ROSE FORMATION.

THICKNESS AND VARIATION OF GLEN ROSE BEDS.

PALEONTOLOGY OF GLEN ROSE BEDS.

PALUXY FORMATION.

CHARACTER AND OCCURRENCE.

BASEMENT SANDS (REPRESENTING VARIOUS FORMATIONS) ALONG WESTERN BORDER REGION.

EXTENT OF BASEMENT SANDS.

TOPOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE BASEMENT SANDS.

CONTACTS OF BASEMENT SANDS.

VARIATIONS AND DETAILS OF COMPOSITION.

SECTION No. 13.-HINER, PARKER COUNTY, TEXAS (TAFF).

RELATION TO PALUXY AND UNDERLYING SANDS.

CHARACTER OF ANTLERS SANDS -NORTH OF DECATUR.

ANTLERS SANDS IN INDIAN TERRITORY.

INLIERS OF LAMPASAS CUT PLAIN.(See map, P1. LXVI.)

REMNANTAL AREAS IN THE CENTRAL PROVINCE.

FREDERICKSBURG DIVISION.

GENERAL CHARACTER AND RELATIONS.

SUBDIVISIONS OF FREDERICKSBURG GROUP.

VARIATIONS IN THICKNESS.

GENERAL SECTIONS.

WALNUT FORMATION.

GENERAL CHARACTER AND COMPOSITION.

RELATIONS AND AREAL DISTRIBUTION.

COMANCHE PEAK AND EDWARDS FORMATIONS.

EXTENT, IMPORTANCE, AND THICKNESS.

GOODLAND LIMESTONE.

CHARACTER OF THE FORMATION.

DETAILS OF OCCURRENCE.

COMANCHE PEAK LIMESTONE.

RELATION TO GOODLAND AND EDWARDS LIMESTONES.

CHARACTER AND DETAILS OF OCCURRENCE.

PALEONTOLOGY OF COMANCHE PEAK LIMESTONE.

EDWARDS LIMESTONE.

RELATIONS AND COMPOSITION.

OCCURRENCE OF FLINTS IN EDWARDS LIMESTONE.

PECULIAR ALTERATION.

ECONOMIC FEATURES.

RELIEF FEATURES.

CONTACTS OF EDWARDS LIMESTONE.

OCCURRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION.

DETAILS OF STRATIGRAPHY.

THICKNESS, AND VARIATION THEREOF.

WASHITA DIVISION.

GENERAL FEATURES AND RELATIONS.

VARIATIONS IN THICKNESS AND IN SEDIMENTATION.

ORIGINAL SHORE LINE OF THE WASHITA SEDIMENTS.

GENERAL OCCURRENCE.

CLASSIFICATION AND VARIATION OF THE FORMATIONS.

RED RIVER SECTIONS.

DENISON SECTION.

BROADER PALEONTOLOGIC FEATURES.

CHARACTER AND EXTENT.

DETAILS OF OUTCROP OF KIAMITIA CLAY.

PALEONTOLOGY OF THE KIAMITIA FORMATION.

DUCK CREEK FORMATION.

GENERAL CHARACTER AND FEATURES.

PALEONTOLOGIC FEATURES OF DUCK CREEK FORMATION.

FORT WORTH FORMATION.

DEFINITION AND GENERAL CHARACTER.

CHARACTERISTIC FOSSIL FORMS OF FORT WORTH FORMATION.

TYPE LOCALITY AT FORT WORTH.

EXTENT AND DISTRIBUTION.

GEORGETOWN FORMATION.

LITHOLOGIC CHANGES IN FORT WORTH FORMATION SOUTHWARD.

GENERAL OCCURRENCE OF GEORGETOWN LIMESTONE.

THE GEORGETOWN SECTION.

PALEONTOLOGY OF GEORGETOWN LIMESTONE.

GEORGETOWN LIMESTONE AT AUSTIN.

CHARACTER AND NOMENCLATURE

THREE SUBGROUPS.

THE INDIVIDUAL BEDS OR FORMATIONS.

DENTON SUBGROUP.

POTTSBORO SUBGROUP.

Paleontologic features

Paleontology and fossil horizons

Details of occurrence

BUDA LIMESTONE OF SOUTHERN SECTION.

RELATIONS, STRATIFICATION, AND MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURE.

DETAILS OF OCCURRENCE, PALEONTOLOGY, AND THICKNESS.

SUMMARY AND CORRELATION OF THE WASHITA DIVISION.

BROAD VARIATION IN LITHOLOGIC CHARACTERS.

CORRELATION OF FOSSIL HORIZONS OF AUSTIN AND RED RIVER SECTIONS.

Upper Cretaceous-Gulf Series.

RELATION TO EXTRATERRITORIAL FORMATIONS.

WOODBINE FORMATION.

CHARACTER AND COMPOSITION OF THE ROCKS.

IRON-ORE KNOBS AND SILICEOUS IRONSTONE.

RELATIONS AND THICKNESS.

CLASSIFICATION INTO SUBGROUPS.

EXTENT AND DETAILS OF OCCURRENCE.

LEWISVILLE BEDS.

PALEONTOLOGY OF WOODBINE FORMATION.

REPORTS BY PROF. F.H. KNOWLTON.

RELATION OF WOODBINE FORMATION TO DAKOTA EPOCH.

EAGLE FORD FORMATION.

VARIATION OF EAGLE FORD FORMTION SOUTHWARD.

PALEONTOLOGY OF EAGLE FORD FORMATION.

GENERAL CHARACTER AND LITHOLOGIC COMPOSITION.

RELATIONS TO OVERLYING AND UNDERLYING FORMATIONS.

DISTRIBUTION, THICKNESS, AND PALEONTOLOGY.

TAYLOR FORMATION.

UNCONSOLIDATED CHARACTER OF UPPER CRETACEOUS.

GENERAL FEATURES AND THICKNESS OF TAYLOR FORMATION.

ANALYSES OF TAYLOR MARLS.

NAVARRO FORMATION.

GENERAL CHARACTER, RELATIONS, AND VARIATIONS.

PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS AT CLASSIFICATION.

DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE.

SUBDIVISIONS OF NAVARRO FORMATION.

DIFFICULTIES OF CORRELATION SOUTH OF RED RIVER.

SURFICIAL AND ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS OF BLACK AND GRAND PRAIRIE REGIONS.

Résume of Alluvial Phenomena along Tertiary-Cretaceous Parting.

Summary and Conclusions.

GEOLOGIC STRUCTURE.

Three great structural groups of rocks.

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TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
TO THE
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

1899-1900

CHARLES D. WALCOTT
DIRECTOR

IN SEVEN PARTS
PART VII-TEXAS

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1901

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