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South-Central Section - 46th Annual Meeting (8–9 March 2012)

Paper No. 3
Presentation Time: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COMPARISON OF TYPE LOCALITIES OF THE ERNST MEMBER, BOQUILLAS FORMATION, BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK WITH THE EAGLE FORD FORMATION, LOZIER CANYON, TX


COOPER, Dee Ann, Non-vertebrate Paleontology Lab., Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 17890 Nonie Lane, Lumberton, TX 77657 and COOPER, Roger W., Department of Earth and Space Science, Lamar University, 17890 Nonie Lane, Lumberton, TX 77657-6847, deeanncooper@yahoo.com

General stratigraphic comparison between the ~250 foot thick Ernst Member of the Boquillas Formation in Big Bend National Park as measured and defined at the Hot Springs Trail Reference Section (Cooper and others, 2007) is compared to the ~175 foot thick Eagle Ford Formation as measured and defined at Lozier Canyon, Terrell County, TX (Pessagno, 1969; Donovan, 2011; Lock, personal cummunication, 2011).

Session No. 20--Booth# 3

S1. Big Bend National Park and Vicinity: A Decade of Research (Posters)
Friday, 9 March 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Espino Foyer (Sul Ross University)
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 44, No. 1, p.36
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