| Mount Blanco | |
|---|---|
 Mount Blanco viewed from above | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 3,074 ft (937 m) |
| Coordinates | 33°47′29″N 101°15′11″W / 33.79139°N 101.25306°W |
| Geography | |
  Mount Blanco | |
| Geology | |
| Rock age(s) | Late Blancan ?2.5-1.8mya?, Early Pleistocene |
| Mountain type | Butte |
Mount Blanco is a small white hill — an erosional remnant — located on the eastern border of the Llano Estacado within Blanco Canyon in Crosby County, Texas.[1] With Blanco Canyon, it is the type locality of the early Pleistocene Blanco Formation of Texas and Kansas,[2] as well as the Blancan fauna, which occurs throughout North America.[3][4] Mount Blanco is a Late Blancan age site, and is associated with other Late Blancan sites from Texas such as Red Light and Hudspeth local faunas from Hudspeth County, and the Cita Canyon fauna from Randall County.[5][6]
- ^ Holliday, V.T. 1988. Mt. Blanco revisited: soil-geomorphic implications for the ages of the Upper Cenozoic Blanco and Blackwater Draw Formations. Geology 16(6):505-508.
- ^ "Geologic Unit: Blanco". National Geologic Database. Geolex — Unit Summary. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
- ^ Cope, E.D. 1892. A contribution to a knowledge of the fauna of the Blanco beds of Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 44:226-229.
- ^ Schultz, G.E. 1977. Blancan and post-Blancan faunas in the Texas Panhandle. In: Schultz, G.E. (ed), Guidebook: Field conference on late Cenozoic biostratigraphy of the Texas Panhandle and adjacent Oklahoma: West Texas State University, Kilgore Research Center, Special Publication 1, pp. 105-145.
- ^ White Jr., Richard S.; Morgan, Gary S. (2005). "Arizonan Blancan Vertebrate Faunas in Regional Perspective". Vertebrate Paleontology of Arizona, Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin. 11.
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