Bureau of Economic Geology - University of Texas at Austin : Geological Circulars
11x8.5" Illustrated.

Texas Circular 77-5 : 1977 : Relationship of Porosity Formation and Preservation to Sandstone Consolidation History—Gulf Coast Lower Tertiary Frio Formation, by R. G. Loucks, D. G. Bebout, and W. E. Galloway. 12 p., 21 figs., 2 tables (nicked edge) $1

Bureau of Economic Geology - University of Texas at Austin : Maps
These lightly used maps usually have owner's stamps and filing notations on the envelope, sometimes on map.

1. Geologic Atlas of Texas Maps:
Scale 1:250,000, folded in orange sleeve. Color map. $3 each or the whole group of 31 for $80

Abilene sheet. 1972. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Amarillo sheet. 1969. $3
Austin sheet. 1974. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Beaumont sheet. 1968. $3
Beeville – Bay city sheet. 1975. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Big Spring sheet. 1974. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Brownfield sheet. 1974. $3
Brownwood sheet. 1976. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Corpus Christi sheet. 1975. $3
Crystal City – Eagle Pass sheet. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Dallas sheet. 1972. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Del Rio sheet. 1977. $3
Fort Stockton sheet. 1982. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Hobbs sheet. 1976. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Houston sheet. 1968. $3
Laredo sheet. 1976. $3
Llano sheet. 1981. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Lubbock sheet. 1967. $3
McAllen-Brownville sheet. 1976. $3
Palestine sheet. 1968. $3
Pecos sheet. 1976. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Perryton sheet. 1970. $3
Plainview sheet. 1968. $3
San Angelo sheet. 1975. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
San Antonio sheet. 1974. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Sherman sheet. 1967. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Sequin sheet. 1974. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Sonora sheet. 1981. $3
Texarkana sheet. 1966. (with explanatory text pages.) $3
Tyler sheet. 1965, 1975. $3
Van Horn – El Paso sheet. 1968. (with explanatory text pages.) $3

2. Geologic Quadrangle Maps :
Folded, in an envelope. Color maps.

Texas Geologic Quadrangle Map 21 : 1957 : Geology of Wylie Mountains and vicinity, Culberson and Jeff Davis counties, Texas. By Hugh Hay-Rose. Scale 1:63,360. Laid out in folio format, with explanatory text on a similar large adjoining sheet. (envelope a bit battered) $3

Texas Geologic Quadrangle Map 25 : 1963, 1969 : Geology of the Johnson City quadrangle, Blanco county, Texas. By Virgil E. Barnes. Scale 1:24,000. With 11 pages of text. $3

Texas Geologic Quadrangle Map 26 : 1963 : Geology of Eagle Mountains and vicinity, Hudspeth county, Texas. By James R. Underwood, Jr. Scale 1:48,000. With 32 pages of text. $20

Texas Geologic Quadrangle Map 30 : 1966 : Geology of Black Gap area, Brewster county, Texas. By Bill E. St. John. Scale 1:62,5000. With 18 pages of text and 2 other folded plates (Structure contour map and Composite measured section). $20

Texas Geologic Quadrangle Map 35 : 1968 : Geology of Apache Mountains, Trans-Pecos, Texas. By John W. Wood. Scale 1:63,360. With 32 pages of text. $20

Texas Geologic Quadrangle Map 37 : 1970 : Geology of Bofecillos Mountains area, Trans-Pecos, Texas. By John F. McKnight. Scale 1:48,000. With 36 pages of text. $20

Texas Geologic Quadrangle Map 39 : 1970 : Geology of Southern Quitman Mountains, Hudspeth county, Texas. By Bill R. Jones and Donald F. Reaser. Scale 1:48,000. With 24 pages of text. $20

Texas Geologic Quadrangle Map 40 : 1972 : Gravity, magnetic, and generalized geologic map of the Van Horn – Sierra Blanca region, Trans-Pecos, Texas. By Michael A. Wiley. Scale 1:125,000. With 26 pages of text. $20

3. Miscellaneous Texas geology maps :
Good to VG condition. (see also Mexico for some related maps)

Energy Resources of Texas by A. E. St. Clair T. J. Evans and L. E. Garner. Color map poster size scale 1:1000000 1976.. Folded, in envelope. $2

Bureau of Economic Geology - University of Texas at Austin : Publications
6x9" before #4300, 7x10" after.

Texas Publication 3945 (Separate from) : 1940 : Crinoids from the Upper Carboniferous and Permian strata in Texas. By R. C. Moore and F. B. Plummer. (This was published as part of Texas Publication 3945 : Contributions to Geology, 1939). Softcover, 8.5” x 6”, 468p., 78 figures, 21 plates. Nice plates! VG $46

Texas Publication 5305 : 1953 : Geology of Henrys Chapel quadrangle, northeastern Cherokee county, Texas, by H.B. Stenzel. 119p., 57 figs, 1 large color geologic map in pocket. (spine rough, one part taped) $18

Texas Publication 5704 : 1957 : Pelecypoda from the Type Locality of the Stone City Beds (Middle Eocene) of Texas. By H. B. Stenzel, E. K. Krause, and J. T. Twining. 237p., 22 plates, 31 figures, 4 tables. Nice plates! (VG. Very small spot on cover edge) $30

Texas Publication 5724 : Geology of Parker County, Texas. See Map from this publication in Misc. Maps section above.

Texas Publication 6210 : 1962 : Annotated Bibliography, and Index, of Conodonts [with two supplements], by S. P. Ellison, Jr. 128 p., 6 charts. (minor pencil marks) $8

Texas Publication 6304 : 1963 : Upper Cretaceous Ammonites from the Gulf Coast of the United States. By Keith Young. 373p., 34 figures, 82 plates, 13 tables. VG. $25

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Bureau of Economic Geology - University of Texas at Austin : Reports of Investigations
7x10" prior to 50, 8.5x11" after that. (some sunned edges, bumped corners)

Texas Report of Investigations 1 : 1946 : Rustler Springs Sulphur Deposits as a Source of Fertilizer, by G. L. Evans. 13 p., 3 figs., $1

Texas Report of Investigations 12 : 1952 : Geology of the Blacklands Experimental Watershed, Near Waco, Texas, by H. R. Blank, N. L. Stoltenberg, and H. H. Emmerich. 46 p., 1 figure, 4 pls., 1 map in pocket, $1

Texas Report of Investigations 13 : 1952 : Boundary of the Pennsylvanian and Permian(?) in the Subsurface Scurry Reef, Scurry County, Texas, by W. A. Heck, K. A. Yenne, and L. G. Henbest. 17 p., 5 figs., 1 plate, 1952. $1

Texas Report of Investigations 16 : 1952 : The Hazel Copper – Silver mine, Culberson county, Texas. By Peter T. Flawn. 23p., 4 figures, 7 plates (6 in pocket), 1 table. (sunned spine) $22

Texas Report of Investigations 33 : 1957 : Pleistocene Equidae of Texas. By James Harrison Quinn. 51p., 1 figure, 7 plates, 10 tables. $8

Texas Report of Investigations 37 : 1958 : Mineral Resources of the Colorado River Industrial Development Association Area, by J. W. Dietrich and J. T. Lonsdale. 84 p., 22 figs., 9 pls/maps in pocket. $20

Texas Report of Investigations 59 : 1967 : Lower Cretaceous Sands of Texas: Stratigraphy and Resources, by W. L. Fisher and P. U. Rodda. 116 p., 8.5x11", 12 figs., 3 pls. including 1 map. Good (numerous filing marks on cover, edges bumped, spine end rough) $18

Texas Report of Investigations 60 : 1967 : Sand Resources of Texas Gulf Coast, by L. E. Garner. 85 p., 8.5x11", 12 figs., 6 pls., including 1 map. $7

Texas Report of Investigations 66 : 1970 : Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Ptychaspid Biomere, Wilberns formation, Central Texas. By Susan Ann Longacre. 70p., 6 plates, 8 figures, 1 table. $14

Texas Report of Investigations 68 : 1970 : Pre-Chappel Conodonts of the Llano Region, Texas, by G. Seddon. 130 p., 9 figs., 19 pls., frontispiece. (good : some pencil marks) $4

Texas Report of Investigations 70 : 1971 : Correlation of Tertiary Rock Units, West Texas, by R. A. Maxwell and J. W. Dietrich. 34 p., 1 plate (back cover spotty, slightest warp, upper spine end a bit rough). 10x7" $4

Texas Report of Investigations 81 : 1974 : Approaches to Environmental Geology: A Colloquium and Workshop, E. G. Wermund, Editor. 268 p., 125 figs., 52 tables, (spine scuffed in a couple spots, minor soil on edge of page block) $4

Texas Report of Investigations 88 : 1977 : The Moore Hollow Group of Central Texas, by V. E. Barnes and W. C. Bell. 169 p., 13 figs., 24 tables, 18 pls., Plates are in large separate envelope. (faint soil on cover and envelope, contents very good) $6

Texas Report of Investigations 250 : 1998 : Permeability Structure of the Edwards Aquifer, South Texas: Implications for Aquifer Management, by Susan D. Hovorka, Robert E. Mace, and Edward W. Collins. 55p., 30 figs., 12 tables. (bumped corners) $4

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Southern Methodist University : Journal - Graduate Research Center 9x6"

Texas SMU Journal Vol. 31 # 1-2 : Feb. 1963 : Cost analysis in the Petroleum industry. 116p. $8

Texas SMU Journal Vol. 32 # 1-2 : Oct. 1963 : The decision makers - the power structure of Dallas. 135p. (bumped corner) $10

Texas SMU Journal Vol. 33 # 1 : April 1964 : 6 articles. Mathematics. Cherokee "burn" chant / conjuration. 54p. $3

Texas SMU Journal Vol. 34 # 1-2 : Mark 1965 : Single crystal elastic constants and calculated aggregate properties. 269p. plate in pocket. $8

Texas SMU Journal Vol. 34 # 3 : June 1965 : Geographical essays presented to honor Edwin J. Foscue. 100p. Illus. $5

Texas SMU Journal Vol. 35 # 1 : Jan. 1966 : 5 articles. $1

Texas SMU Journal Vol 36 # 1 : Jan. 1967 : Hasin bounds for aggregates of cubic crystals. 87p. $3

Texas SMU Journal Vol. 38 # 3-4 : Sept. 1970 : Papers from the Dept. of Biology, SMU. 83p. Illus. $5

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Texas Geological Materials : Misc. (Split into sections below : 1. Books, 2. Offprints and Small papers)
Unless otherwise noted, these are in very good condition. Clean, tight, square and flat. Spines a bit sunned, edges lightly bumped. Owner's name or stamp, cover may be slightly soiled. Individual condition notes below.

MISC. Texas Geology BOOKS : (Papers/Off-prints farther down page)

Bibliography and Index of Texas Geology, 1951–1960, by E. T. Moore and M. D. Brown. 575 p., 1972. 11x8.5”, 575p. This is Bibliography Series #1. (barely bumped corner, owner’s stamp) $5

Carboniferous crinoids of Texas with stratigraphic implications. By Harell L. Strimple and William T. Watkins. 1969 Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca. Palaeontographica Americana Volume 6 No. 40. 12x9”, softcover, pages 141-275, 2 figures, plates 30-56. (VG, except cover has sunned edges. Neat owner's name stamp). $58

Clastic Diapirism in the Gueydan (Catahoula) formation, Live Oak and McMullen counties, Texas. by Paul S. Freeman. MA thesis. Bulletin #9 : 1971 : Corpus Christi Geological Society. 11x8.5" Illus. 107p. $8

Edwards reef complex and associated sedimentation in Central Texas. By H. F. Nelson. 1973. This is Guidebook 15, BEG and UT-Austin. It was published for a field trip for the 1973 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Dallas, Texas. 11x8.5”, 35p., 5 figures, 7 plates. Includes background descriptive text plus detailed sections on stratigraphy for 6 stops. $10

Geology of the West Flower Garden Bank (outer edge of the Texas - Louisiana continental shelf). by Goldsborough, Serpell, Edwards. Texas A&M University Sea Grant Program : TAMU-SG-71-215 : 1971. 200p. one-sided, fold-out. 11x8.5" (lower spine end a bit rough) $10

Highway Geology Symposium : Proceedings. Resources & Transportation : 31st Annual. Published 1981. Sponsored by the Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, and Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation. Comb Bound, 11x8.5”, 188p., nicely illustrated. (bumped corner) $16

Leonardian facies in W. Texas and S. E. New Mexico and Guidebook to the Glass Mountains, West Texas. 1987. Edited by Dave Cromwell and Lou Mazzullo. This is publication 87-27 Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogy. It was printed for the 1987 meeting of the Permain Basin Section of the SEPM. 111p., illus. including folded map in pocket. Includes three Road Logs plus the following technical articles. . (Leonardian facies in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico and Guidebook to the Glass Mountains, West Texas.) $42

Nearsurface sediments of the continental shelf off Louisiana (TX) by H.N. Fisk. Univ. of Texas, Bureau of Econ. geol. Reprint from Proceedings of 8th TX conference on Soil mechanics and foundation engineering. 1956. 11x8.5" 40p., color illus. $4

Reports on the Cretaceous area north of the Colorado River : I. The Bosque Division, II. The Lampasas - Williamson section (TX). by J.A. Taff. Hardbound, 110p., illus. fold-out section. This has apparently been extracted from Geological Survey of Texas 3rd Annual Report (for 1891), 1892, pages 271-379., then professionally hardbound. (Good : Owner's plate. Cover edges sunned, with minor soil. Paper darkened with age. First page has a beautifully repaired tear. Last two pages are rough with repaired tears and corner tip) gr. $36

Sandstone and shale diagenesis of the Frio formation (Oligocene), Texas gulf coast : a close look at Sandstone/Shale contacts. by Keith Barry Sullivan. MA thesis, University of Texas at Austin. 1988. Very nice Hardback book. 242p., original photos (some color) glued in. (one page tip bent, original hinge material caused a little rippling at each hinge). $20

Sierra de Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico : structure and stratigraphy. Edited by Earl M. P. Lovejoy, authors include Jorge Campuzano, Earl M. P. Lovejoy, Steven K. Nodeland, Douglas B. Swift, Thomas L. Uphoff, Herbert J. Wacker. 1980 El Paso Geological Society. Softcover, 11x8.5”, 59p., 40 figures, 4 tables, 9 plates in envelope. This publication was prepared for the 1980 meeting of the Southwest section of AAPG. (VG. One small note pertaining to location of photo). $38

Temperatures variations and their relation to groundwater flow, South Texas, Gulf coast basin by Deborah S. Pfeiffer. 1988 University of Texas at Austin, M.A. Thesis. 199p., illus, map in pocket. Handsome hardback. (covers barely rubbed. End papers have minor discoloration which may be from binding glue) $21

Misc. Texas Geology Offprints and Small Papers:~9x6" unless otherwise noted. (Misc. BOOKS above)

Artesia group of New Mexico and west Texas. By Tait, Ahlen, Gordon, Scott, Motts, and Spitler. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1962, Vol. 46(4), pages 504-517. $3

Buried hill at Wilcox – Carrizo contact in East Texas. By H.B. Stenzel. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1951, Vol. 35(8), pages 1815-1828. $3

Comanchean stratigraphy of Kent quadrangle, Trans-Pecos Texas. (Jeff Davis county, Reeves county, Culberson county). By John P. Brand and Ronald K. Deford. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1958, Vol. 42(2), pages 371-386. $3

Connell sandstone, Oil Creek formation, Simpson group, West Texas. By R.H. Schweers. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1949, Vol. 33(12), pages 2029-2036. $2

Conodonts from the Burnam Limestone of Central Texas by Glen Merrill. 1965 Texas Journal of Science Vol. 17(4). 60p., plates. (minimal pencil marks) $9

Depositional environments of marine-dominated bedded halite, Permian San Andres formation, Texas. by Susan Hovorka. 1987. Extracted from Sedimentology 34, pp 1029-1954, illus. $3

Dust storm sediments of Lubbock area, Texas. By Kerby E. Laprade. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1957, Vol. 41(4), pages 709-726. $3

Fourth Annual report of the Geological Survey of Texas. By Edwin T. Dumble. 1892. 10x7”, 35p. This contains the Table of Contents to the whole annual report and The director’s report. The rest of the report is NOT here. (Good. Cover page a bit rough around edges with ownership stamps). $2

Geologic reconnaissance of the Fort Davis National Historic Site, Texas, by A. Gordon Everett. 1967. The Pearce-Sellards Series ; Texas Memorial Museum, University of Texas at Austin, No. 6. 19p., illus., 10x7". $4

Isotopic evidence for the early meteoric diagenesis of the reef facies, Permian reef complex of West Texas and New Mexico, by R. Kevin Given and Kyger C. Lohmann. 1986. Extracted from the Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, vol. 56(2), pages 183-193, illus., 11x8.5". $2

Mexia – Talco fault line in Hopkins and Delta counties, Texas. By Dilworth S. Hager and Claude M. Burnett. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1960, Vol. 44(3), pages 316-356. $8

Palynologic correlations in Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group, northeast Texas. By C.W. Brown and R.L. Pierce. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1962, Vol. 46(12), pages 2133-2147. $3

Permian tectonic history in Glass mountains, Texas. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1962, Vol. 46(9), pages 1728-1734. $1

Petrogenesis of Permian Delaware mountain sandstone, Texas and New Mexico. By Joseph P.D. Hull, Jr. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1957, Vol. 41(2), pages 278-307. $6

Pleistocene Berclair Terrace of Medio Creek, Bee county, Texas. By James E. Conkin and Barbara M. Conkin. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1962, Vol. 46(3), pages 344-353. $2

Review of R.T. Hill's report on Artesian water in Texas. 1890's. Texas Geol Survey ? 44p. Some controversy arose following the report, which was distributed in a limited manner. (front cover detached with edge chips (lower blank edge missing), library plate). $4

Roads and material for their construction in the Black Prairie region of Texas by Robert Hill. Clay soils 1889? Bulletin Univ. of Texas. 22p. Fold out map! costs, lots neat vintage material. This is an offprint. 9x6" (Stamps, filing marks) $4

Siliciclastic grain breakage and displacement due to carbonate crystal growth : an example from the Lueders formation (Permian) of north-central Texas, U.S.A. by Chris Buczynski and Henry S. Chafetz. 1987. Extracted from Sedimentology 34, pp 837-843, illus. $1

Slick – Wilcox field, Deweitt and Goliad counties, Texas. By Louie Sebring, Jr. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1948, Vol. 32(2), pages 228-251. (Two figs. missing narrow slice from where printing was close to binding). $4

Strand-line accumulation of Petroleum, Jim Hogg county, Texas. By James C. Freeman. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1949, Vol. 33(7), pages 1260-1270. $2

Stratigraphy of Blaine formation (Permian), north-central Texas. By Eugene C. Pendery, III. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1963, Vol. 47(10), pages 1828-1839. $2

Structure of Grand Saline Salt Dome, Van Zandt county, Texas. By Robert Balk. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1949, Vol. 33(11), pages 1791-1829, includes fold-out plates. $9

Zonation of Upper Cretaceous Austin chalk and Burditt marl, Williamson county, Texas. By Keith Young and Edward Marks. Extracted from Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Bull. AAPG), 9x6”, illus. 1952, Vol. 36(3), pages 477-488. $2