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Geologic Unit: Anderson Mountain
Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Anderson Mountain member [informal?]
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Tuff
    • Breccia
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Midcontinent region
Publication:

Sides, J.R., Bickford, M.E., Shuster, R.D., and Nusbaum, R.L., 1981, Calderas in the Precambrian terrane of the St. Francois Mountains, southeastern Missouri, IN Granites and rhyolites: Journal of Geophysical Research, B, Solid Earth and Planets, v. 86, no. 11, p. 10,349-10,364.


Summary:

Anderson Mountain member [informal?] of Lake Killarney formation. A coarse fragmental tuff and coarse breccia in uppermost part of Lake Killarney. Not separately mapped; Lake Killarney mapped in area between Ironton, Iron County, and Roselle, Madison County, St. Francois Mountains, southeastern Missouri (Midcontinent region). Unit probably represents slumped material from wall of Butler Hill caldera. Is mostly unsorted and unstratified, but does exhibit crude bedding in one outcrop. Tuff consists of a fine-grained matrix of quartz and feldspar with larger crystal fragments of quartz and perthite. Breccia consists of rounded to angular clasts of silicic volcanic rocks in a fine quartzo-feldspathic matrix; clasts make up 25 to 75 percent of rock and range from a few mm to 30 cm in diameter. Older than Grassy Mountain ignimbrite. Age is Proterozoic; most volcanic rocks of St. Francois Mountains are 1,485 Ma. Report includes geologic map, table of stratigraphic units.
Type locality not designated. Origin of name not stated by authors.
[Authors' intentions are unclear as to which, if any, of the geologic units discussed should have formal status.]

Source: Modified from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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