Geology

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Map of geology in parts of Tillman County, Oklahoma, and Wichita County, Texas, showing regions colored according to geological features, contour lines, and elevation. The map also includes buildings, roads, fences, bodies of water, trees, oil wells, and U.S. Supreme Court temporary points and receivership boundary. Scale 1:6,000

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1 map : col. ; 63 x 83 cm., on sheet 77 x 91 cm.

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Stiles, Arthur Alvord 1921.

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  • Main Title: Geology
  • Added Title: Geology: In the Supreme Court of the United States the State of Oklahoma, complainant, vs. the State of Texas, defendant, the United States of America intervener.

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Map of geology in parts of Tillman County, Oklahoma, and Wichita County, Texas, showing regions colored according to geological features, contour lines, and elevation. The map also includes buildings, roads, fences, bodies of water, trees, oil wells, and U.S. Supreme Court temporary points and receivership boundary. Scale 1:6,000

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1 map : col. ; 63 x 83 cm., on sheet 77 x 91 cm.

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"Prepared for the Attorney General of the State of Texas under the direction of Arthur A. Stiles, State Reclamation Engineer, by authority of acts of legislature approved August 11, 1919 and June 18, 1920. 1920."

Geological features: new made land, alluvial fans, dune series (1, 2, 3, 4), low marginal terrace, intermediate terraces, high terraces, Permian.

"Contour interval 2 feet. Datum is mean sea level."

Mapped in 1920.

Lower right hand corner of map: "Wichita County Texas, Red River Valley, Opposite range 14 west in Oklahoma, Big Bend sheet, Texas, exhibit no. 49 (2)."

At head of title: The State of Texas. Reclamation Department, Austin.

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  • Accession or Local Control No: HSU-0307002084472
  • Accession or Local Control No: 6.A.5
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth493646

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  • 1921

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  • Sept. 14, 2014, 8:47 a.m.

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  • Jan. 14, 2015, 1:42 p.m.

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Stiles, Arthur Alvord. Geology, map, 1921; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth493646/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.

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