Geology of the Waxahachie Quadrangle, Ellis County, Texas

Authors

William Wirt Peabody, Southern Methodist University

Abstract

In the Waxahachie Quadrangle, in the northern part of Ellis County, Texas, the Cretaceous Austin and Taylor formations crop out. The contact between these units is uncomfortable and marked by a one-inch red clay bed containing phosphate pebbles. Much of the eastern part of the area is overlain by terrace deposits. Structurally, the quadrangle is part of the homoclinal coastal plain, but is broken by normal faults with throws of up to 100 feet. Most of the faults strike northeast and dip steeply northwest. A few of these dip southeast and a few faults strike northwest. Southwest of Rockett a northeast-trending graben of Taylor in Austin chalk is well exposed along Brushy Creek. Joints with northeast and northwest trends are numerous.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License

Recommended Citation

Peabody, William Wirt (1961) "Geology of the Waxahachie Quadrangle, Ellis County, Texas," Journal of the Graduate Research Center: Vol. 29: No. 3, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholar.smu.edu/journal_grc/vol29/iss3/2