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Austin Chalk

Austin Chalk
Stratigraphic range: Upper Cretaceous
Contact Austin Chalk - Eagle Ford Shale in Texas
TypeGeological formation
Sub-unitsAtco Formation, McKown Formation, Pflugerville Member
Lithology
PrimaryChalk
Location
RegionGulf Coast
CountryUnited States
Austin Chalk stratigraphic column

The Austin Chalk is an 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 is made up of chalk and marl.[1]

Fossils

The putative galloanseran bird Austinornis lentus has been found in the Austin Chalk.[2][3] The general absence of dinosaurs is a reflection of the Austin limestone being marine in origin, primarily composed of microscopic shell fragments from floating sea organisms known as "coccolithophores" (the same organisms that contributed to the White Cliffs of Dover, on the south coast of England).[4] Nevertheless, the Austin Chalk will occasionally produce fossils of larger creatures, such as Inoceramus clams, ammonite cephalopods, and large marine vertebrates such as Xiphactinus, a predaceous fish.

Geology

The rocks of the Austin Chalk consist of recrystallized, fossiliferous, interbedded chalks and marls. Exposures of Austin Chalk are mainly seen in quarries, roadcuts, and stream beds where water eroded the soil. Austin Chalk outcrops can be seen throughout Dallas, and extend south underneath I-35 down into Austin and San Antonio. Volcanic ash layers are present in the Austin chalk, and dates obtained from radioactive minerals in these ash layers indicate they were deposited by wind from distant erupting volcanoes around 86 mya. These eruptions occurred along a 250-mile long by 50 mile wide belt of submarine volcanoes, which are located in present-day south-central Texas. This belt of volcanoes coincides with the trend of the Balcones Fault zone and is known as the Balcones volcanic province. Evidence of these ancient volcanoes is only visible in a few places as most were buried by the Austin and Taylor Group, and now are in the subsurface. The presence of this volcanism during deposition of the Austin Chalk is correlated with the Laramide orogeny. Sea level rose for conditions to be right for the deposition of the Austin Chalk, which also coincides with the maximum extent of the Cretaceous Interior Seaway. The depths of the deposition of the Austin Chalk occurred in ~250 m or 820 ft of water, well-suited to the deposition of coccoliths.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ US Geological Survey, Austin Chalk
  2. ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  3. ^ J. A. Clarke. 2004. Morphology, phylogenetic taxonomy, and systematics of Ichthyornis and Apatornis (Avialae: Ornithurae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 286:1-179.
  4. ^ Scoggins, Phillip (1996). ""Surface Geology of Dallas and Tarrant Counties, Texas"". Dallas Paleontological Society. Archived from the original on 2011-07-28.

References

  • Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.

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