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Hogshooter Formation

TULSA- Limestone and some shale. (Mapped with the Nellie Bly Formation south of Bartlesville)
StateOklahoma
NameHogshooter Formation
Geologic agePhanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle
Original map labelIPhg
CommentsComments: Named from Hogshooter Creek, Washington Co, OK on the Chautauqua platform. Limestone which in its northern extension is heavily bedded and massive but to the southward is thin bedded and argillaceous. Thickness at the state line is about 10 ft; is 6 or 8 ft thick along Hogshooter Creek; is 4 ft Fossils fairly abundant. (Ohern,1910).
Primary rock typelimestone
Secondary rock typeshale
Other rock types
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)
Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (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
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
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 coverageNowata - Washington

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