Blanco Formation
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blanco-formation-248-17533479
title:
Blanco Formation
text:
The Blanco Formation, originally named the Blanco Canyon Beds, is an early Pleistocene geologic formation of clay, sand, and gravel whitened by calcium carbonate cementation and is recognized in Texas and Kansas. After the Ogallala had lain exposed for some time since the Neogene, developing a thick caliche petrocalcic horizon under the surface, deposition of sand and gravel by wind and east-flowing streams resumed to lesser extent during the early Pre-Illinoian glaciation cycles of the Pleistoc
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanco_Formation
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date modified:
2023-05-02T16:56:16Z
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