- Usage in publication:
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- Anadarche conglomerate
- Anadarche limestone
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Conglomerate
- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- South Oklahoma folded belt
Summary:
Pg. 15-16. [Two separately described units, Anadarche conglomerate and Anadarche limestone (in Hoxbar formation), were combined and called Anadarche member of Hoxbar the following year (see entry under Tomlinson, 1929).]
Anadarche conglomerate. Lies 1,800+/- feet above base of Hoxbar formation. It carries pebbles of chert and of early Pennsylvanian as well as pre-Pennsylvanian limestones. Some 200 feet higher in Hoxbar formation is Anadarche limestone, a very dense, hard, bluish gray limestone up to 20 feet thick. [Age is Pennsylvanian.]
Recognized in Carter Co., central southern OK.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 49).
- Usage in publication:
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- Anadarche member
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- South Oklahoma folded belt
Summary:
Pg. 43-44. Anadarche member of Hoxbar formation. Is 100 to 200 fee thick. Consists, at top, of very dense, hard, bluish gray limestone up to 20 feet thick, and, at base, of a limestone conglomerate, 0 to 10+/- feet thick, which contains pebbles of pre-Pennsylvanian limestones and cherts and also of Pennsylvanian limestones. [Does not describe the intervening strata of the member.] Liess 500 to 800 feet above Crinerville member and 400 to 600 feet below Daube limestone member. [Age is Pennsylvanian.]
Type locality: on Anadarche Creek, 1/8 mi south of corner of sec. 35, T. 5 S., R. 2 E., Carter Co., central southern OK.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 49).
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