Abstract
At the end of the Maestrichtian Age, seas withdrew from North America and virtually every other continent. The Tejas episode began, as did others before, with high-standing continents; but unlike past times, the seas remained outside of the cratonic interior except for a brief transgression in the Paleocene which probably came from the Arctic Ocean and reached south as far as the Dakotas. The Tejas Sequence name derives from the site of the best-studied Cenozoic units, those of the Texas coastal plain, which feature a rich record of marine and marginal-marine strata (along with the Atlantic, Pacific, and adjacent Gulf coasts). In contrast, the cratonic interior also contains a very sizable Tejas record; but almost all units involved are nonmarine. In addition, substantial areas of the northern craton and Cordillera feature surficial Quaternary glacial deposits, which may obscure uppermost preglacial Tejas depositional events.
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1987 Plenum Press, New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Frazier, W.J., Schwimmer, D.R. (1987). The Tejas Sequence: Tertiary—Recent. In: Regional Stratigraphy of North America. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1795-1_9
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1795-1_9
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4612-9005-6
Online ISBN: 978-1-4613-1795-1
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive