- Usage in publication:
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- Fork Mountain slate
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Slate
- Quartzite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Ouachita folded belt
Summary:
Pg. 30, 40 and 1914 (USGS Bull. 586). Fork Mountain slate. Gray to greenish and chocolate-colored slates, containing thin layers of quartzite in lower part; much jointed, but withstands weathering, and usually forms a bluff where it outcrops on mountain side. Overlies Arkansas novaculite and unconformably underlies Stanley shale. [Age is Pennsylvanian.]
[Named from Fork Mountain, Polk Co., southwestern AR.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 753).
- Usage in publication:
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- Fork Mountain slate
- Modifications:
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- Abandoned
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Ouachita folded belt
Summary:
Pg. 66. Some shale at base of Stanley shale has in places been altered to slate, to which the name "Fork Mountain slate" has been earlier applied. [This name has been discarded. The beds are only a local facies of Stanley shale.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 753).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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