- Usage in publication:
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- Moreau sandstone
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Ozark uplift
Summary:
Pg. 331, 370-375. Moreau sandstone. Massive sandstones, 50 or more feet thick, containing fragments and grains of chert. Underlies Jefferson City limestone and overlies Osage [Gasconade] limestone in central Missouri. [Age is Early Ordovician (Beekmantown).]
[Named from Moreau Creek, Cole Co., central MO.]
[GNC remark (ca. 1936, US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896, p. 1419): †Moreau sandstone abandoned. Is same as Roubidoux formation, older name.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1419).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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