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  • Usage in publication:
    • Asherville alluvium
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sand
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Upper Mississippi embayment
Publication:

Farrar, Willard, and McManamy, Lyle, 1937, The geology of Stoddard County, Missouri, Appendix 6, IN Buehler, H.A., Biennial report of the State Geologist to the 59th General Assembly: Missouri Division of Geological Survey and Water Resources Biennial Report, no. 59, 92 p.


Summary:

Pg. 38-41. Asherville alluvium. Composed of reddish, angular sand grains, with a small amount of red to light-brown clay. Thickness varies from 18 to 80 feet. Overlies Powell(?) and Ripley formations and also loess. Age is Pleistocene(?).
Found in vicinity of Asherville, in sec. 15, T. 26 N., R. 8 E., Puxico quadrangle [Stoddard Co.] southeastern MO.

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