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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cup Coral member
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • South Oklahoma folded belt
Publication:

Goldston, W.L., Jr., 1922, Differentiation and structure of the Glenn formation: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 6, no. 1, p. 1-23. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Cup Coral member of Glenn formation. Blue shales separated by thin sandstones and an occasional limestone; 1,500 to 1,800 feet thick. Is easily distinguished by a white limestone near top, which carries a large cup coral (CAMPOPHYLLUM TORQUIUM); south of Ardmore this limestone is exposed in only one place. To south of Woodford 5 of the 7 sandstone beds are asphalt bearing. Underlies Deese member and overlies Otterville limestone member (both of Glenn). Present in Carter County, central southern Oklahoma. Correlates with Millsap formation of north-central Texas, and Boggy shale north of Arbuckle Mountains (corr. chart). Age is Pennsylvanian. Report includes geologic map, structural map, cross sections, correlation chart, fossil list.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 555-556); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cup Coral member
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
Publication:

Girty, G.H., and Roundy, P.V., 1923, Notes on the Glenn formation of Oklahoma with consideration of new paleontologic evidence: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 7, no. 4, p. 331-349. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pg. 331-347. Glenn formation includes only Deese and Cup-Coral members of Goldston.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 555-556).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cup Coral member
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • South Oklahoma folded belt
Publication:

Tomlinson, C.W., 1928, Oil and gas in Oklahoma; Carter County: Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 40-Z, 78 p., Also issued in Oklahoma Geol. Survey Bull., no. 40, v. 2, p. 239-310, 1930


Summary:

Pg. 7-21. Deese formation (5,000+/- feet thick) underlies Hoxbar formation and rests on Dornick Hills formation, which overlies Springer formation and includes Otterville limestone restricted.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 555-556).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cup Coral member†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
Publication:

Tomlinson, C.W., 1929, The Pennsylvanian system in the Ardmore basin: Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 46, 79 p.


Summary:

Dornick Hills formation, 1,500 to 4,000 feet thick, includes Goldston's Otterville and Cup Coral members of Glenn formation and a little more. "Cup Coral member" is discarded as confusing and inappropriate. As mapped by Goldston its stratigraphic limits were rather variable, and name gives no clue to type locality. Also, cup corals are common at certain horizons in overlying Deese formation, and occur also in Jolliff, Otterville, and other limestone members of Dornick Hills formation, and at one locality in Hoxbar formation.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 555-556).


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