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  • Usage in publication:
    • Rhoda Creek formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • South Oklahoma folded belt
Publication:

Elias, M.K., 1956, Upper Mississippian and Lower Pennsylvanian formations of south-central Oklahoma, IN Hicks, I.C., and others, eds., Petroleum geology of southern Oklahoma; a symposium; Volume 1: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Volume, no. 16, p. 56-134., Prepared in conjunction with Ardmore Geol. Soc [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Named as a formation in the Springer Series; named from Rhoda Creek, the largest eastern tributary to Clear Boggy Creek. Type locality designated in NW1/4 sec 8, T2N, R7E, about 1 mi northwest of Frisco, Pontotoc Co, OK in Arkoma basin. Occurs in the northern Arbuckle Mountains of south-central OK. Consists largely of uniformly soft gray shale, with somewhat irregular cleavage along bedding, combined with conchoidal fracture; shale disintegrates readily in water. Ferruginous concretions present at several horizons and locally concentrated in zones or lentils. At type locality, light-gray to rusty, only slightly hardened sandstone and sandy shale 9 ft thick cap about 131 ft of the shale. Total thickness measured at type locality is slightly more than 140 ft. Unconformably overlies Sand Branch member (new) of Caney shale; underlies an unexposed and unnamed shale interval of Springer age. Cephalopods, goniatites, pelecypods, a few conodonts. Stratigraphic table. Age given as pre-Union Valley, pre-Morrow.

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


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