High Purity Marble Falls Limestone, Burnet County, Texas
High Purity Marble Falls Limestone, Burnet County, Texas
Abstract
Chemical analyses show that a reef approximately 100 feet thick in the lower portionof the Marble Falls limestone near Marble Falls, Burnet County, Texas, is exceptionally pure. Only the Honeycut formation, of the other formations described, contains limestone that might be of value.The type section of the Marble Falls limestone is described, including thin-section and insoluble residue descriptions.
Citation
Barnes, V. E., 1952, High Purity Marble Falls Limestone, Burnet County, Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations No. 17, 27 p.
Code
RI017
DOI
10.23867/RI0017D
ISSN
2475-367X
Number
17
Number of figures
3
Number of pages
27
Publisher
The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology
Series
Report of Investigation
Year
1952