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Geologic Unit: Butler Hill
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Butler Hill Granite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Midcontinent region
Publication:

Kisvarsanyi, E.B., Hebrank, A.W., and Ryan, R.F., 1981, Guidebook to the geology and ore deposits of the St. Francois Mountains, Missouri: Missouri Division of Geology and Land Survey Report of Investigations, no. 67, 119 p., Also issued as Contrib. Precambrian Geol., no. 9


Summary:

Butler Hill Group, the older of two groups assigned to /St. Francois Mountains Volcanic Supergroup (revised). Includes (of J.R. Sides, 1976, IN E.B. Kisvarsanyi, ed., Missouri Geol. Survey, Rpt. Inv., no. 61, p. 105-113), in ascending order: Lake Killarney Formation, Grassy Mountain Ignimbrite, and Pilot Knob Felsite [units are here apparently formalized]. Study area is St. Francois Mountains, southeast Missouri (Midcontinent region). Older than /Taum Sauk Group (new) of St. Francois Mountains. Age is Precambrian Y. Nomenclature listed in table 1.
[Conflicts with nomenclature guidelines (ACSN, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021): name Butler Hill applied concurrently to two different units in same area; preempted by Butler Hill Granite of Tolman and Robertson (1969); name St. Francois Mountains applied concurrently to two different units in same area; a [supergroup] name combines a geographic name with the term ["supergroup,"] and no lithic designation is included; name Taum Sauk used for both group and formation within it (Taum Sauk Rhyolite has priority).]

Source: Modified from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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