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  • Usage in publication:
    • Game Refuge Sandstone*
  • Modifications:
    • Adopted
Publication:

Gordon, Mackenzie, Jr., 1975, Correlation chart of Carboniferous rocks in Arkansas and Oklahoma, IN Cohee, G.V., and Wright, W.B., Changes in stratigraphic nomenclature by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1975: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1422-A, p. A54, A56-A57.


Summary:

Pg. A14-A15, A54, A56-A57 (fig. 5). Game Refuge Formation of Harlton (1959) adopted as Game Refuge Sandstone, uppermost of five named formations of Jackfork Group. Overlies Wesley Shale of Jackfork; underlies Johns Valley Shale. Age is Early Pennsylvanian (Morrowan; Namurian C of Europe); foram zone 20 and ammonoid zone BRANNEROCERAS BRANNERI. [See also Mackenzie Gordon, Jr., and G.C. Stone, 1976, Arkansas Geol. Commission Symposium on the geology of the Ouachita Mountains, v. 1.]

Source: Publication.


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