Samsville Anticline (Discarded)

Location

T1N, R11E, Edwards County

References

Easton 1943

Description

Easton (1943) defined this anticline on the basis of a very slight westward nosing of structural contours on the Levias Limestone Member (Renault) and the Beech Creek ("Barlow") Limestone. He had only five control points. The current Beech Creek maps (ISGS open files), which are based on dozens of additional wells, show eastward nosing in the same area. Use of the name Samsville Anticline should be discontinued because the structure, both as originally mapped and as presently known, is too subtle to name as an anticline.