- Usage in publication:
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- Burgess oolite
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Oolite
- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Black Warrior basin
Summary:
Pg. 13-15. Burgess oolite, variable in thickness (0 to 40 feet) and physical properties. Liess 200 feet below top of Bangor limestone in Russellville district (Franklin County and western part of Lawrence County, northwestern Alabama). Overlain and underlain by blue fossiliferous limestones of Bangor limestone. Age is Mississippian.
Type locality at Burgess quarry, on a comparatively high hill 3 mi east of Russellville, Franklin Co., northwestern AL, where it has its greatest thickness, at least 40 feet.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 296).
- Usage in publication:
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- Burgess oolite member
- Modifications:
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- Areal extent
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Black Warrior basin
Summary:
Pg. 575, 576. Burgess oolite member of Bangor limestone. Thickness 0 to 40 feet. Underlies unnamed blue fossiliferous limestone; separated from underlying Rockwood oolite by unnamed blue fossiliferous limestone 100 feet thick.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 537-538).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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