- Usage in publication:
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- Arnold member
- Modifications:
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- Principal reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sandstone
- Limestone
- Shale
- AAPG geologic province:
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- South Oklahoma folded belt
Summary:
Pg. 36-38. Arnold member of Deese formation. Near middle of Deese formation, consists of (descending): (1) medium-grained massive buff sandstone, 50 feet; (2) shale, 50+/- feet; (3) limestone (fossiliferous, thin-bedded, more or less earthy and lumpy, interbedded with calcareous shale, and carrying lenses of smoky chert), 50+/- feet; (4) 100+/- foot interval; (5) richly fossiliferous shales associated with float or smoky chert. [Age is Pennsylvanian.] Named from Arnold's Reef, on Arnold farm, in sec. 33, T. 3 S., R. 1 E., Carter Co., central northern OK. [Columnar section on pl. 18 shows 1,900+/- feet of strata between Arnold member and underlying Devil's Kitchen member of Deese formation.]
[See also C.W. Tomlinson, AAPG Bull., v. 18, no. 8, 1934, p. 1085.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 75-76).
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