- Usage in publication:
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- Panther Creek limestone*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Chautauqua platform
Summary:
Named for Panther Creek in southwest part of T26N, R12E, Washington Co., OK on the Chautauqua platform. Rests on Torpedo sandstone, or is separated from it by a thin shale. Name Stanton? limestone has been applied to it in some earlier reports. No type section selected. Maximum thickness is 14 ft. Divisible in a lower siliceous, orange-weathering impure limestone, and an upper purer white limestone. Fossiliferous; abundant crinoid stems, forams, ostracods, bryozoans. Overlain by massive sandstone and shale. Columnar sections. Pennsylvanian age.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
- Usage in publication:
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- Panther Creek limestone
- Modifications:
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- Not used
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Chautauqua platform
Summary:
Field work and stratigraphic studies have determined that the Panther Creek limestone has been mapped as Birch Creek limestone and as Stanton limestone. The Birch Creek (named in 1918) preempts the name Panther Creek (named in 1922). Term Panther Creek not used.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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