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    Texas contains a wide variety of geologic settings. The state's stratigraphy has been largely influenced by marine transgressive-regressive cycles during...
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    result of the eruption. Parker, D.L. (2006-07-24). "PILOT KNOB - A CRETACEOUS VOLCANO NEAR AUSTIN". The Walter Geology Library. University of Texas Libraries...
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    Delaware Basin (category Permian geology of Texas)
    The Delaware Basin is a geologic depositional and structural basin in West Texas and southern New Mexico, famous for holding large oil fields and for a...
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  • erosion and deposition. In the Permian geologic period, North-Central Texas was a part of the western coastal zone of equatorial Pangea, a super-continental...
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    Balcones Fault (category Geology of Texas)
    Laubach, Stephen E. (1997). "Tectonic Map of Texas" (PDF). Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 30 July 2015. Grimshaw...
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    Beds of Texas and Oklahoma are a group of Early Permian-age geologic strata in the southwestern United States cropping out in north-central Texas and south-central...
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    Rio Grande rift (category Geology of Texas)
    Walter S. (November 1979). "Geometry of Subducted Slabs Related to San Andreas Transform". The Journal of Geology. 87 (6): 609–627. Bibcode:1979JG.......
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    The Geology of Stonewall County Texas. Austin: The University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, Bulletin No. 3027, 76 pp. "Kiowa Peak". Handbook of Texas...
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    Llano Estacado (category Geology of Texas)
    convincingly for the geological origin". In his Roadside Geology of Texas, Geologist Darwin Spearing also prefers the geological solution to the etymology:...
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    Permian Basin (North America) (category Carboniferous geology of Texas)
    western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. It is named after the Permian geologic period, as it contains some of the world's thickest deposits of rocks...
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  • University of Texas at Austin. The Bureau of Economic Geology was established in 1909 as a successor to the Texas Geological Survey and the Texas Mineral...
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    undisturbed state west of Marble Falls near Fredericksburg, Texas. Llano Uplift Geology of Texas From Texas Department of Agriculture. Texas Family Land Heritage...
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    Woodbine Group (category Cretaceous geology of Texas)
    The Woodbine Group is a geological formation in east Texas whose strata date back to the Early to Middle Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous. It is the...
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  • Houston black (soil) (category Geology of Texas)
    (6,100 km2) of the Texas blackland prairies and is the Texas state soil. The series is composed of expansive clays and is considered one of the classic...
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    Austin Chalk (category Cretaceous geology of Texas)
    upper Cretaceous geologic formation in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. It is named after type section outcrops near Austin, Texas. The formation...
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    Ogallala Aquifer (category Geology of Texas)
    facies of the Miocene-Pliocene Ogallala Formation, northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico. Geology, 16(3), 203–206. Retrieved from: http://geology.gsapubs...
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    Ferdinand von Roemer (category Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences)
    which also included a general account of the geology, and gained for him the title Father of the geology of Texas. Subsequently, he published at Breslau...
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    Its capital city is Austin. Due to its size and geologic features such as the Balcones Fault, Texas contains diverse landscapes common to both the U...
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  • contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Texas, U.S. Paleontology portal Texas portal Paleontology in Texas Wikisource has...
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    "Subsurface Geology". Geology of Houston & Vicinity, Texas (PDF). Houston Geological Society. pp. 21–26. Hardin Jr., George C. (1961). "Economic Geology". Geology...
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  • , 1950. Utilization of Texas Serpentine, The University of Texas Publication, No. 5020. Austin, Texas Bureau of Economic Geology. 52 pp. Carlson, W. D...
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  • Llano Uplift (category Geologic provinces of Texas)
    the Llano region and Austin area. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Guidebook 13, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. 77 pp. Petrossian, R., Michael Jacobs...
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    Marathon Uplift (category Geology of Texas)
    west Texas. Both may have been formed around the time of the Ouachita orogeny. Llano Uplift Solitario McBride, E.F. and Hayward, O.T., 1988. Geology of the...
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    Mescalero Ridge (category Geology of Texas)
    States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Price, A.P. 1977. Mescalero Sandhills of Cochran and Yoakum Counties, Texas. Master's...
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    Glen Rose Formation (category Cretaceous geology of Texas)
    to shoreline geological formation from the lower Cretaceous period exposed over a large area from South Central to North Central Texas. The formation...
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  • Narrows is the name given to a geological feature located 4 to 6 miles (6.4 to 9.7 km) east of Benjamin in Knox County, Texas. It is a narrow crest running...
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  • Caseosaurus (category Triassic geology of Texas)
    genus of saurischian dinosaur that lived approximately 221.5 to 212 million years ago during the latter part of the Triassic Period in what is now Texas, North...
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    Javelina Formation (category Cretaceous geology of Texas)
    The Javelina Formation is a geological formation in Texas. Dating has shown that the strata date to the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous, approximately...
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    Eagle Ford Group (category Cretaceous geology of Texas)
    Norton, G. H. (1965) Surface geology of Dallas County, "in" The geology of Dallas County: Dallas Geological Society, Dallas, Texas, p. 40–125. Silver, B. A...
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    coloration of the quartz is thought to be due to ilmenite inclusions. It is named after Llano County, Texas, the only place where it is found. The geology of northeast...
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