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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cole Camp sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ozark uplift
Publication:

Winslow, Arthur, 1894, Lead and zinc deposits: Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Report, v. 6-7, 763 p.


Summary:

Pg. 331, 364-369. Cole Camp sandstone. White saccharoidal sandstone, 6 to 25 feet thick, underlying Osage limestone and overlying Proctor limestone. [Age is Early Ordovician (Beekmantown).]
[Named from outcrops on Cole Camp Creek, Cole Co. (now Benton Co.), central MO.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 486).


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