Womble Formation or Womble Shale (OKOw;0)

ARDMORE-SHERMAN- "Womble Shale"- Shale, black to green; thickness, 250 feet, base covered. Occurs in the OUACHITA MNTS. McALESTER TEXARKANA- "Womble Formation"- Sandstone, phyllites, and shales, greenish-gray to dark-gray to black, weathering red-brown; some black to brown cherty limestones occur in upper part; Middle Ordovician graptolites are found in upper part, and Lower Ordovician graptolites in lower part; basal part faulted; estimated thickness, 1,000 feet or more, with maximum thickness in Arkansas 3,500 feet. Occurs in POTATO HILLS, BROKEN BOW UPLIFT or ADJACENT SMALLER UPLIFTS IN SOUTHEASTERN PART OF OUACHITA MOUNTAINS

State	Oklahoma
Name	Womble Formation or Womble Shale
Geologic age	Phanerozoic \| Paleozoic \| Ordovician-Early Ordovician-Middle
Original map label	Ow
Primary rock type	sandstone
Secondary rock type	phyllite
Other rock types	shale; limestone
Lithologic constituents	Major Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed) Metamorphic > Metasedimentary > Metaclastic > Phyllite Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed) Minor Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)
Map references	Heran, W. D., Green, G. and Stoeser, D. B., 2003, A Digital Geologic Map Database of Oklahoma: U. S. G. S. Open File Report 03-247
Unit references	Heran, W. D., Green, G. and Stoeser, D. B., 2003, A Digital Geologic Map Database of Oklahoma: U. S. G. S. Open File Report 03-247 Hart, D.L., 1974, Reconnaissance of the water resources of the Ardmore and Sherman quadrangles, southern Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological Survey, Hydrologic Atlas 3, scale 1:250,000, 4 sheets. (Geology on sheet 1 compiled by D.L. Hart, and R.O. Fay, in 1970.) Cederstrand, J.R., 1996a, Digital geologic map of Ardmore-Sherman quadrangles, south-central Oklahoma: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-370, (3 diskettes), URL address is: http://ok.water.usgs.gov/gis/geology [http://ok.water.usgs.gov/gis/geology/ardmore.html] [http://ok.water.usgs.gov/gis/geology] Marcher, M.V. and Bergman, D.L., 1983, Reconnaissance of the water resources of the McAlester and Texarkana quadrangles, southeastern Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological Survey, Hydrologic Atlas 9, scale 1:250,000, 4 sheets. (Geology on sheet 1 compiled by M.V. Marcher and D.L. Bergman, in 1971 and revised by R.O. Fay, in 1978.) Cederstrand, J.R., 1996h, Digital geologic map of McAlester-Texarkana quadrangles, southeastern Oklahoma: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-377, (3 diskettes), URL address is: http://ok.water.usgs.gov/gis/geology [http://ok.water.usgs.gov/gis/geology/mcalestr.html] [http://ok.water.usgs.gov/gis/geology]
Geographic coverage	Atoka - Latimer - McCurtain - Pushmataha