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March 2019 Bulletin

Depositional Environment and Facies Analyses of the Owl Mountain Province, Fort Hood Military Installation, Bell and Coryell Counties, Texas

By Jacob A. Meinerts, Melinda S. Faulkner, and Kevin W. Stafford

Stephen F. Austin State University, Department of Geology

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A geophysical attempt to locate a potential cave in the near-vicinity of a water well at Anacacho Limestone setting, Medina County, TexasBy Mustafa Saribudak and Alf HawkinsEnvironmental Geophysics Associates, Austin, Texas Abstract Resistivity and natural potential (NP, also called self-potential) surveys were performed in the eastern part of Medina County, Texas. According to the geological data available, the Upper Cretaceous Anacacho limestone crops out at the study area.

January 2019 Bulletin

A Revised Age Range For Texas Gulf Coast Serpentine Mounds

By Mark E. Thompson

Geologist

San Antonio, Texas

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December 2018 Bulletin

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November Bulletin

Stratigraphic Architecture, Depositional Systems of the Mississippian Upper Barnett Two Finger Sand Interval, Midland Basin, Texas

By Justin V. Mauck1,2, Robert G. Loucks2, and David J. Entzminger3

1 Schlumberger Technology Corporation, 7220 W Hwy 20, Midland, Texas 79706, U.S.A

2 Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, University Station, Box X, Austin, Texas 78713–8924, U.S.A.

October 2018 Bulletin

Evaporites in the McKnight Formation: Evidence for a Miocene Age to Fresh Water Flushing of the Maverick Basin, Southwest TexasBy Mark E. Thompson and M. Jeff RidingsPetroleum GeologistsSan Antonio, Texas IntroductionThe Maverick Basin is a relatively small depositional basin of Mesozoic age located in extreme southwest Texas (Fig. 1). The basin originated in the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic as a rift basin created during the early formation of the Gulf of Mexico.