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  • Usage in publication:
    • Blaylock sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ouachita folded belt
Publication:

Purdue, A.H., 1909, Structure and stratigraphy of the Ouachita Ordovician area, Arkansas [abs.]: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 19, p. 556-557.


Summary:

Pg. 557. Blaylock sandstone. Sandstone unconformably underlying Slatington shale [Missouri Mountain slate] and overlying Polk Creek shale. [Age is Early Silurian.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 212).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Blaylock sandstone*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ouachita folded belt
Publication:

Purdue, A.H., 1909, The slates of Arkansas: Arkansas Geological Survey, p. 1-95, (incl. geologic map)


Summary:

Pg. 30, 36. Blaylock sandstone. Fine-grained to medium-grained sandstone of dove, dark gray, or green color, interbedded with dark-colored often black, and fissile shale. Thickness 1,500 feet. In parts, through 100 or more feet, consists almost wholly of sandstone; in other parts is made up of alternating beds of sandstone and shale. The sandstone is usually in layers 1 to 6 inches thick and bedding is very even. Some of layers are quartzitic and contain numerous quartz veins; other thin layers closely resemble chert. Overlies Polk Creek shale. Underlies, probably unconformably, Missouri Mountain slate. [Age is Early Silurian.]
[Named from Blaylock Moutain, Montgomery Co., AR. Recognized in southwestern AR and southeastern OK.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 212).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Blaylock sandstone*
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped 1:500k
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ouachita folded belt

Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Blaylock sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ouachita folded belt
Publication:

Pitt, W.D., 1956, [Stratigraphy of the core of the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma, revised], IN Ouachita Mountains field conference: Ardmore Geological Society Field Conference Guidebook, p. 34-42., See also Oklahoma Geol. Survey Circ., no. 34, 34 p., 1955


Summary:

Pg. 39. Blaylock sandstone. Consists of thin-bedded sandstones and dark shales which weather red or brown. Sandstones are silty, normally greenish gray or brown on fresh fracture. Thickness 670 to slightly over 800 feet. Overlies Polk Creek shale; underlies Missouri Mountain shale. [Age is Silurian.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 383-384).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Blaylock Sandstone*
    • Blaylock Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ouachita folded belt
Publication:

McFarland, J.D. (compiler), 2004, Stratigraphic summary of Arkansas: Arkansas Geological Commission Information Circular, no. 36 (Revised), 39 p. [Available online from the Arkansas Geological Survey.]


Summary:

Pg. 20-21. Blaylock Sandstone; Blaylock Formation. Fine- to medium-grained sandstone of tan, dark gray, or greenish color, interbedded with dark-colored to black fissile shale. Thickness as much as 1,200 feet along southwestern part of outcrop area in Arkansas, but thins dramatically to north where it is frequently represented by only 5 to 20 feet of olive gray shale. Conformably overlies the Polk Creek. Age is Silurian.
Recognized in Ouachita Mountains, west-central AR, and in southeastern OK.

Source: Publication.


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