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Dewey Formation or Dewey Limestone

ENID- "Dewey Limestone"- Mainly medium-crystalline limestone and shale. Thickness ranges from 0 to 60 feet (0 to 18 m). TULSA- "Dewey Formation"- Limestone and some shale. (Mapped with the Chanute formation south of Bartlesville) OKLAHOMA CITY- "Dewey Limestone"- Mainly sandy limestone or calcareous sandstone containing limestone lenses 1.5 to 20 feet thick, overlain by shale 5 to 50 feet thick. Total thickness ranges from 20 to 60 feet.
StateOklahoma
NameDewey Formation or Dewey Limestone
Geologic agePhanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle
Original map labelIPd
CommentsComments: Named from the town of Dewey, Washington Co, OK on the Chautauqua platform. Is a bluish, semi-crystalline limestone, usually somewhat shaly but often massively bedded; on weathering, gives surface fragments abounding in seams of calcite. At the cement plant at Dewey is at least 20 ft thick; at Ochelata and Ramona is about 15 ft thick. (Ohern, 1910)
Primary rock typelimestone
Secondary rock typesandstone
Other rock typesshale
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed)
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed)
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
Bingham, R.H. and Bergman, D.L., 1980, Reconnaissance of the water resources of the Enid quadrangle, north-central Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological Survey, Hydrologic Atlas 7, sale 1:250,000, 4 sheets. (Geology on sheet 1 compiled by R.H. Bingham, and R.O. Fay, 1973.)
Cederstrand, J.R., 1996e, Digital geologic map of Enid quadrangles, north-central Oklahoma: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-374, (4 diskettes), URL address is: http://ok.water.usgs.gov/gis/geology
Marcher, M.V., and Bingham R.H., 1971, Reconnaissance of the water resources of the Tulsa quadrangle, northeastern Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological Survey, Hydrologic Atlas 2, scale 1:250,000, 4 sheets. (Geology on sheet 1 compiled by M.V. Marcher, in 1969.)
Cederstrand, J.R., 1996k, Digital geologic map of Tulsa quadrangles, northeastern Oklahoma: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-380, (2 diskettes), URL address is: http://ok.water.usgs.gov/gis/geology
Bingham, R.H. and Moore, R.L., 1975, Reconnaissance of the Water Resources of the Oklahoma City quadrangle, central Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological Survey, Hydrologic Atlas 4, Scale 1:250,000, 4 sheets. (Geology on sheet 1 compiled by R.H. Bingham and R.O. Fay, 1973.)
Cederstrand, J.R., 1996i, Digital geologic map of Oklahoma City quadrangles, central Oklahoma: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-378, (2 diskettes), URL address is: http://ok.water.usgs.gov/gis/geology
Ohern, D. W., 1910, The stratigraphy of the older Pennsylvanian rocks of northeastern Oklahoma: Okla St Univ, Research Bull., 4; Abst, Geol. Soc. Am., Bull. 22: pp. 720-721
Geographic coverageCreek - Nowata - Okfuskee - Tulsa - Washington

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