Big Bend National Park

Selected References

Maps, books, and selected historic reports that describe the rocks and stratigraphy of the Big Bend National Park Area

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Duex, T.W., Kinsland, G.L., and Tucker, D.R., 1994, The Sierra Quemada Caldera: A major event in the geologic history of Big Bend National Park, Texas: Structure and Tectonics of the Big Bend and Southern Permian Basin, Texas: West Texas Geological Society 1994 Field Trip Guidebook, T.M. Laroche and J.J. Viveiros, eds., Publication 94-95, p. 213-228.

Scheubel, F.R. and Mruk, D.H., 1994, Road log: Structure and Tectonics of the Big Bend and Southern Permian Basin, Texas: West Texas Geological Society 1994 Field Trip Guidebook, T.M. Laroche and J.J. Viveiros, eds., Publication 94-95, p. 1-119.

Barker, D.S., Henry, C.D. and McDowell, F.W., 1986, Pine Canyon caldera, Big Bend National Park; a mildly peralkaline magmatic system, IN Price, J.G., and others, eds., Igneous geology of Trans-Pecos Texas; field trip guide and research articles: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Guidebook, no. 23, p. 266-285.

Barnes, V.E., 1977, Geologic atlas of Texas , Del Rio Sheet; Robert Thomas Hill memorial edition: University of Texas-Austin , Bureau of Economic Geology, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Barnes, V.E., 1979, Geologic atlas of Texas , Emory Peak-Presidio Sheet; Joshua William Beede memorial edition: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Freeman, V.L., 1964, Geologic Map of the Indian Wells Quadrangle, Terrell and Brewster Counties, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, I-395, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500 Moon, C.G., 1953, Geology of Agua Fria quadrangle, Brewster County, Texas : Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 64, no. 2, p. 151-196.

Henry, C.D. and Price, J.G., 1985, Summary of the Tectonic Development of Trans-Pecos Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Miscellaneous Map No. 36, scale 1:500,000.

Henry, C.D. Price, J.G., and Miser, D.E., 1989, Geology and Tertiary Igneous Activity of the Hen Egg Mountain and Christmas Mountains Guqarangles, Big Bend Region, Trans-Pecos Texas: University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations No. 183, 105 p.

Henry, C.D., McDowell, F.W., Price, J.G. and Smyth, R.C., 1986, Compilation of Potassium-Argon ages of Tertiary igneous rocks, Trans-Pecos Texas: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geological Circular, no. 86-2, 34 p.

Hill, R.T. and Vaughan , T.W., 1898, Geology of the Edwards Plateau and Rio Plain adjacent to Austin and San Antonio, Texas, with reference to the occurrence of underground waters: U.S. Geological Survey Annual Report, 18, pt. 2, p. 193-321.

Hill, R.T., 1901, Geography and geology of the Black and Grand Prairies, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Annual Report, 21, pt. 7, 666 p.

Maxwell, R.A. and Dietrich, J.W., 1965, Geologic summary of the Big Bend region, IN Geology of the Big Bend area, Texas; with road log and papers on natural history of the area: West Texas Geological Society Special Publication, no. 65-51, October, 1965, p. 11-33.

Maxwell, R.A. and Lonsdale, J.T., 1966, Geologic Map of Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas: University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, map scale 1:62,500.

Maxwell, R.A., Lonsdale, J.T., Hazzard, R.T., and Wilson, J.A., 1967, Stratigraphy: in, Geology of Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas : Maxwell, R.A. and others (eds), The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Publication 6711, p. 23-156.

Pause, P.H., and Gray, R.G., eds., Geology of the Big Bend Area and Solitario Dome, Texas: West Texas Geological Society 1986 Field Trip Guidebook, Publication 86-82, 279 p.

Price, J.G. and Henry, C.D., 1988, Dikes in Big Bend National Park; Petrologic and tectonic significance: South-Central Section of the Geological Society of America, Centennial Field Guide, Volume. 4, p. 435-440.

Stevens, J.B., 1988, Basal Gulfian and Comanchean Section, Anguila Fault Zone and Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Trans-Pecos Texas, and Chihuahua, Mexico: South-Central Section of the Geological Society of America, Centennial Field Guide, Volume. 4, p. 423-428.

Stevens, J.B., 1988, Mid Tertiary and Pleistocene sections, Sotol Vista to Cerro Castellan, Big Bend National Park, southwestern Brewster County, Trans-Pecos Texas: South-Central Section of the Geological Society of America, Centennial Field Guide, Volume. 4, p. 429-434.

Tauvers, P.R. and Muehlberger, W.R., 1988, Persimmon Gap in Big Bend National Park, Texas; Ouachita facies and Cretaceous cover deformed in a Laramide thrust: South-Central Section of the Geological Society of America, Centennial Field Guide, Volume. 4, p.417-422.

Udden, J.A., 1907, A Sketch of the Geology of the Chisos Country, Brewster County, Texas: University of Texas Bulletin, no. 93, 101 p.

Yates, R.G., and Thompson, G.A., Geology and Quicksilver Deposts of the Terlingua District Texas: U.S. geological Survey Professional Paper 312, 114 p. [A detailed study of the geology of a mercury mining district that produced 150,000 flasks of quicksilver].