- Usage in publication:
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- Big lime
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- Overview
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Anadarko basin
- Appalachian basin
Summary:
Big lime. Subsurface term. In western Pennsylvania applied to Greenbrier limestone member of Mauch Chunk formation; also to basal part of Greenbrier limestone. The name has also been applied to Benwood limestone member of Monongahela formation and to Loyalhanna limestone. In eastern Kentucky it has been applied to 800 feet or more of oolitic and granular oil-bearing limestones of Chester and St. Louis ages. In Ohio it has been applied to Maxville limestone, also to rocks extending probably from top of Delaware limestone [Devonian] to Brassfield limestone (basal Silurian). In Texas Panhandle it has been applied to rocks correlated with lower part of Clear Fork group and upper part of Wichita group (both Permian). In Nebraska and central eastern Oklahoma it has been applied to post-Cherokee Pennsylvanian rocks lying at different horizons above Oswego lime (Fort Scott limestone).
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 180).
- Usage in publication:
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- Big lime
- Modifications:
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- Overview
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Anadarko basin
GNC Staff, 2008, Remarks on geologic names, 2008: U.S. Geological Survey, unpublished Geologic Names Committee note
Summary:
Big lime in Marmaton Group (subsurface of Kansas and Oklahoma). Same as Oologah Limestone of surface terminology. Age is Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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