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GEOLOGIC TIME CHART OF DALLAS AND TARRANT COUNTIES, TEXAS


    Age      
    or   MA  
Period Series  European Stage Group (million years ago)  Formations
Quaternary   Holocene   0.01 Quaternary Terrace Deposits and Quaternary Alluvium
  Pleistocene   1.8 Unconformity (exent uknown)
Unconformity
Cretaceous Upper Cretaceous / Gulfian       Ozan Marl (Lower Tayler)
Unconformity
  Austin        Gober Chalk
Santonian 82      Brownstown Marl
         Blossom Sand
Coniacian        Austin Chalk
    Unconformity
Turonian Eagle Ford 86 Arcadia Park Shale
    Kamp Rach Limestone
Cenomanian 92 Britton Shale
    Tarrant Beds or Six Flags Limestone
  Woodbine        Arlington Member
         Lewisville Member
         Dexter Member
         Rush Creek Member
Lower Cretaceous / Comanchian   Unconformity
  Washita   Grayson Marl
    Main Street Limestone
Albian 100 Pawpaw
    Weno Limestone
    Denton Clay
    Fort Worth Limestone
    Duck Creek Limestone
    Unconformity
  Fredricksburg   Kiamichi
    Goodland Limestone
    Walnut Clay
    Unconformity
    Paluxy

 

 
 
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