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  • PLATE I. Natural provinces of the Texas region . . . 26
  • II. A, Hypsometric map of Texas region; B, Geologic map of Texas region . . . 30
  • III. 11, A summit of the Llano Estacado; B, Breaks of the Llano Estacado . . . 44
  • IV. Signal Park, a summit of the Callahan Divide, Mitchell County, Texas . . . 46
  • V. A mountain in the Trans-Pecos district . . . 48
  • VI. A and B, Desert plains, Trans-Pecos Texas . . . 50
  • VII. Drainage of the Texas region . . . 52
  • VIII. Colorado River, looking west from Mount Bonnel, Texas . . . 54
  • IX. Fissure spring, Barton Creek, Austin, Texas . . . 56
  • X. The Black and Grand prairies and Eastern Cross Timbers of Texas and Indian Territory . . . 60
  • XI. Drainage of the Black and Grand prairies . . . 64
  • XII. Scarps of the Lampasas Cut Plain, Burnet County, Texas . . . 78
  • XIII. Summits of the Lampasas Cut Plain, Lampasas County . . . 80
  • XIV. View of the Burnet district, showing the margin of the Edwards Plateau in the distance . . . 88
  • XV. Variation in thickness of the Cretaceous formations in the Texas region . . . 108
  • XVI. Formation symbols . . . 110
  • XVII. An outcrop of the Del Rio clays, Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas, showing Exogyra arietina . . . 116
  • XVIII. Red River section of the Cretaceous formations, Grayson County, Texas . . . 118
  • XIX. The Cretaceous formations in the Dallas-Weatherford section . . . 120
  • XX. Columnar sections of the Cretaceous formations, Travis County, Texas . . . 126
  • XXI. Characteristic fossils of the Travis Park and Glen Rose formations . . . 144
  • XXII. Glen Rose formation, bluffs of Mount Bonnel, west of Austin, Texas . . . 146
  • XXIII. Butte of the Glen Rose formation, Travis County, Texas . . . 148
  • XXIV. Fossil fish from the base of the Glen Rose beds, Glen Rose, Texas . . . 160
  • XXV. Characteristic fossils of the Glen Rose beds, Texas . . . 162
  • XXVI. Fossil plants from the base of the Glen Rose formation, Glen Rose, Texas . . . 164
  • XXVII. Characteristic fossils of the Walnut clays and Comanche Peak limestone . . . 226
  • XXVIII. Edwards limestone, Barton Creek, Texas . . . 228
  • XXIX. Quarry in the Edwards limestone west of Austin, Texas . . . 230
  • XXX. Flint from the Edwards limestone . . . 232
  • XXXI. Flints in the Edwards limestone, bluff of the Colorado, Austin, Texas . . . 234
  • XXXII. Weathered Edwards limestone with characteristic fossils, Austin, Texas . . . 236
  • XXXIII. Characteristic fossils of the Edwards limestone . . . 238
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