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Geologic Unit: Maddox
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Maddox limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Upper Mississippi embayment
Publication:

Foerste, A.F., 1903, Silurian and Devonian limestones of western Tennessee: Journal of Geology, v. 11, p. 554-583, 679-715.


Summary:

Name Maddox is proposed for massive limestone at base of Silurian section at Swallow Bluff, Maddox Mill, and W.D. Helton's, and also at New Era and Kelley Landing. The limestone is usually whitish in color, massive at base and more distinctly bedded near top. Occurs below the beds referred to Osgood horizon. Thins out toward Riverside and Iron City. Base of section at least is equal to the Clinton. Top may belong to Osgood horizon. Position of intermediate part is doubtful. It is evident that plane of division between Clinton and Osgood beds is rising southward and that the lithological divisions here do not correspond strictly to those farther north and northeast.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Maddox formation
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Upper Mississippi embayment
Publication:

Wilson, C.W., Jr., 1949, Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy of central Tennessee: Tennessee Division of Geology Bulletin, no. 56, 407 p., 2nd ed. (1990) incl. editorial revisions


Summary:

Pg. 245. Maddox formation. Foerste placed the Osgood and all of the Laurel exposed at Maddox Mill in Maddox formation [Maddox limestone]. This report, however, uses names Osgood and Laurel at Maddox Mill, as elsewhere.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2314-2315).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Maddox Member
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
    • Reinstated
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Upper Mississippi embayment
Publication:

Barrick, J.E., 1983, Wenlockian (Silurian) conodont biostratigraphy, biofacies, and carbonate lithofacies, Wayne Formation, central Tennessee: Journal of Paleontology, v. 57, no. 2, p. 208-239.


Summary:

The Maddox limestone of Foerste (1903) is reinstated as Maddox Member of Wayne Formation. Names Laurel and Osgood not used in this report. Maddox overlies Brassfield Formation; underlies Waldron Member of Wayne Formation. Age is Silurian.

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


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