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Geologic Unit: Enterprise
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Enterprise sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Chautauqua platform
Publication:

Lowman, S.W., 1932, Lower and Middle Pennsylvanian stratigraphy of Oklahoma east of the Meridian and north of the Arbuckle Mountains: Tulsa Geological Society Digest, v. 1, [p. 33-36]., Summaries and abstracts of technical papers presented before the Tulsa Geological Society 1932, unpaged; paper dated Dec. 19, 1932


Summary:

Enterprise sandstone. The Salt sand of Okmulgee underground is to be correlated with the massive sandstone 300 feet above base of the Boggy in Rattlesnake Mountain, just northwest of Warner [Muskogee County]. This has been called Enterprise sandstone (a manuscript name), from a locality on north side of McAlester basin. [The town of Enterprise is in Haskell County.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 692).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Enterprise sandstone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Chautauqua platform
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1936, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1935-1938) on Carboniferous and Permian rocks of the Midcontinent], IN Wilmarth, M.G., 1938, Lexicon of geologic names of the United States (including Alaska): U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 896, pts. 1-2, 2396 p.


Summary:

†Enterprise sandstone in Boggy shale. This name being preoccupied in several senses, and the sandstone having been found, by tracing, to be same as Bluejacket sandstone, it was called Bluejacket by C.W. Wilson, Jr., in 1935 (AAPG Bull., v. 19, no. 4, p. 504-520). Wilson treated the Bluejacket as top member of Savanna sandstone, but it is now treated by the USGS as basal member of Boggy shale, and Enterprise sandstone has been discarded. (See C.H. Dane and T.A. Hendricks, AAPG Bull., v. 20, no. 3, 1936, p. 312-314.)

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 691).


  • Usage in publication:
    • Enterprise sandstone†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Chautauqua platform
Publication:

Branson, C.C., 1957, Rejected Oklahoma stratigraphic names: Oklahoma Geology Notes, v. 17, no. 11, p. 106-108.


Summary:

Pg. 107. †Enterprise sandstone. Abandoned by Oklahoma Geol. Survey. Name of the Haskell County village was given to unit now known as Bluejacket sandstone. Name preoccupied.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1268).


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