- Usage in publication:
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- Quapaw Limestone*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Chautauqua platform
- Cherokee basin
Summary:
Named as a formation for the town of Quapaw, Ottawa Co, OK. Type locality given as 3 mi southeast of Quapaw. Area of this report is in Picher field, a mining district which straddles OK-KS State line just a few miles west of MO State line on Chautauqua platform and Cherokee basin. Consists of medium- to coarse-grained, light-gray to brownish-gray crinoidal limestone, poorly stratified in beds 2-12 inches thick. Is 0-31+ ft thick in the mining field. Probably separated from the underlying Boone Formation by a diastemic break; overlain unconformably by the Hindsville Limestone. Fossils (listed): bryozoans, brachiopods, pelecypods, gastropods, trilobites, crinoids, echinoids, fish remains. Isopach map; geologic map; cross section; stratigraphic table. Of Late Mississippian, Meramec age.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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