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  • Usage in publication:
    • Fite Limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Contact revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Arkoma basin
    • Chautauqua platform
Publication:

Amsden, T.W., 1979, Welling Formation, new name for Upper Ordovician unit in eastern Oklahoma (formerly called "Fernvale"), IN Geological notes: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 63, no. 7, p. 1135-1138. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Upper contact revised in that Fite underlies the newly named Welling Formation, a replacement name for rocks formerly called Fernvale Limestone in eastern OK. Underlies Welling in Arkoma basin and Chautauqua platform. Correlation chart. Columnar section. Assigned to the early Trentonian or Middle Ordovician.

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


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