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  • Usage in publication:
    • Spout Spring oolite
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Oolite
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Black Warrior basin
Publication:

Jones, W.B., 1939, The oolitic limestone deposits of Franklin County, Alabama: Economic Geology, v. 34, no. 5, p. 573-580.


Summary:

Spout Spring oolite. Name applied to 50-foot massive-bedded hard gray oolite near base of Bangor limestone. [Appears to be stratigraphically below the Rockwood oolite member.] Age is Mississippian.
Occurs at Spout Spring, about 2 mi west of Rockwood, Franklin Co., northwestern AL.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 3688-3689).


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