. Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior . eet thick, in the baseof Bachelor Peak, inthe northeast cornerof Burnet County,between the GlenRose and Walnutbeds, is a character-istic representativeof the Paluxy sandbed in this also outcropsaround the head ofNorth Rocky Creek south and east of Bachelor Peak. Where itoccupies a level surface of a considerable extent marked by skirtsand clumps of timber it is the source of many small springs. Wellssunk into it are abundantly supplied with water. Another narrow belt of Paluxy sand appears nea
. Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior . eet thick, in the baseof Bachelor Peak, inthe northeast cornerof Burnet County,between the GlenRose and Walnutbeds, is a character-istic representativeof the Paluxy sandbed in this also outcropsaround the head ofNorth Rocky Creek south and east of Bachelor Peak. Where itoccupies a level surface of a considerable extent marked by skirtsand clumps of timber it is the source of many small springs. Wellssunk into it are abundantly supplied with water. Another narrow belt of Paluxy sand appears near the source ofHickory Creek, Burnet County, just beneath the Walnut formation,but soon changes into an arenaceous limestone as it is traced towardthe east, as do the outcrops in the vicinitv of Bachelor Peak. (See fig. u.) The absence or sparse representation of the Paluxy sands south ofthe Colorado-Brazos divide may be explained by several of these is that either the region was more remote from the pre-existing land from which the sediments were derived, and hence the. J—1 Fig. 14. -Section of Bachelor Peak, Burnet County, Texasplanation of lettering, see PI. XVI, p. 110.) Creek bed(For ex- 170 BLACK AND GRAND PRAIRIES, TEXAS.
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