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  • Usage in publication:
    • Prairie Hollow member
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Ouachita folded belt
Publication:

Harlton, B.H., 1938, Stratigraphy of the Bendian of the Oklahoma salient of the Ouachita Mountains: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 22, no. 7, p. 852-914. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Named as a member of Prairie Mountain formation (new) of Jackfork group (raised in rank) of Pushmataha series (new) of Bendian period. No specific type locality designated. Consists of a widely distributed, variegated maroon and green shale belt occurring approximately 450 ft above the base of Prairie Mountain formation. Is well exposed in Prairie Hollow (source of name) in Ts1 and 2S, R12E, Atoka Co, OK in the Ouachita tectonic belt province. Thickness not given. This zone is of stratigraphic importance in surface mapping. Prairie Mountain formation overlies Wildhorse Mountain formation (new) and underlies Markham Mill formation (new), both of Jackfork group of Pushmataha series of Bendian period. Of Carboniferous age.

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


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