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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]

  1. ^ US Geological Survey, Austin Chalk

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Austin Chalk

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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...

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Chalk

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and at Møns Klint in Denmark. Chalk deposits are also found in Cretaceous beds on other continents, such as the Austin Chalk, Selma Group, and Niobrara Formations...

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Eagle Ford Group

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South Texas, where it is the source rock for oil found in the Woodbine, Austin Chalk, and the Buda Limestone, and is produced unconventionally in South Texas...

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Woodbine Group

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Buda Limestone, or older rocks, and underlies the Eagle Ford Group or Austin Chalk. In outcrop the Woodbine Group has been subdivided into the Lewisville...

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Chesapeake Energy

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In the mid-1990s, the company unsuccessfully attempted to extend the Austin Chalk play into western and central Louisiana. In 1997, the company wrote down...

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Austinornis

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named the genus in 2004 based on a partial tarsometatarsus fossil from Austin Chalk, considered it a pangalliform. However, other researchers have disputed...

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Fracking

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began completing thousands of oil wells by drilling horizontally in the Austin Chalk, and giving massive slickwater hydraulic fracturing treatments to the...

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Dallas

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to 550 feet (137 to 168 m) above sea level. The western edge of the Austin Chalk Formation, a limestone escarpment (also known as the "White Rock Escarpment")...

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EOG Resources

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Formations in the Powder River Basin. The company also owns properties in the Austin Chalk, Anadarko Basin, the Fort Worth Basin, and the Marcellus Shale. The company...

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Pangalliformes

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lentus, its partial left tarsometatarsus was found in the Late Cretaceous Austin Chalk near Fort McKinney, Texas. In 2004, Clarke classified it within Pangalliformes...

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Fracking in the United States

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University, commented: “In fact, the Austin Chalk is the model for modern shale development methods.” The Austin Chalk play started in 1981 with vertical...

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Galliformes

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Austinornis lentus. Its partial left tarsometatarsus was found in the Austin Chalk near Fort McKinney, Texas, dating to about 85 million years ago (Mya)...

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White Rock Creek

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weathered-white Austin Chalk which lines its bed and banks, thus revealing its place geologically within the Balcones Escarpment. In some places, this chalk becomes...

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Chris Chalk

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Christopher Eugene Chalk (born December 7, 1977)[citation needed] is an American actor, most famous for his role as Lucius Fox in Fox American drama series...

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Ozan Formation

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arachoides V. gapensis V. ozanana Velarocythere V. reesidei Hesperornis Annona Chalk overlying Ozan Formation at what is now called White Cliffs Natural Area...

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Cephalopod size

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Parapuzosia bosei 1.45 m Scott & Moore (1928:276); Lewy (2002:66) From the Austin Chalk of the Rio Grande region, Texas. The largest known specimen was reported...

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East Texas Oil Field

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which this time unconformably deposited a layer of impermeable chalk, the Austin Chalk, creating a stratigraphic trap – a situation where oil, which is...

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Graculavus

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paleontologist O. C. Marsh. Its remains were found in the Late Cretaceous Austin Chalk of Texas, USA, and Lance Formation (late Maastrichtian faunal stage,...

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List of fossil sites

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Pleistocene/Holocene North America US: Florida Hominin, human/mastodon coexistence Austin Chalk Late Cretaceous North America US: Texas Aztec Sandstone Early Jurassic...

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Boquillas Formation

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Antonio Creek Member, Scott Ranch Member, Langtry Member Underlies Austin Chalk or Aguja Formation Overlies Buda Limestone Lithology Primary Marl Other...

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Austin Samuels

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2023). "Austin Samuels glad to quash rumours by making Caley Thistle comeback against Hamilton Accies". Chalk, Paul (19 June 2023). "Forward Austin Samuels...

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Bethesda Game Studios

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Archived from the original on February 22, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2017. Chalk, Andy (June 14, 2016). "The Elder Scrolls 6 is in development, Todd Howard...

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