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Wetumka Shale

OKLAHOMA CITY- Mainly sandy, silty, laminated shale 100 to 200 feet thick FORT SMITH- Shale, minor sandstones, and minor limestones. ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Shale, blue-gray, with some sandstones and siltstones; thickness, 120 to 250 feet
StateOklahoma
NameWetumka Shale
Geologic agePhanerozoic | Paleozoic | Carboniferous Pennsylvanian-Middle
Original map labelIPwe
CommentsComments: Composed of friable, laminated clay shales except for thin, shaly sandstone layers near center. Estimated to be about 120 ft thick throughout area of occurrence, Coalgate quad, Coal Co, OK in Arkoma basin. (Taft, 1901)
Primary rock typeshale
Secondary rock typesandstone
Other rock typessiltstone; limestone
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed)
Minor
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)
Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstone (Bed)
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (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 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
Marcher, M.V., 1969, Reconnaissance of the water resources of the Fort Smith quadrangle, east-central Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological Survey, Hydrologic Atlas 1, scale 1:250,000, 4 sheets. (Geology on sheet 1 compiled by M.V. Marcher, in 1967.)
Cederstrand, J.R., 1996f, Digital geologic map of Fort Smith quadrangles, east-central Oklahoma: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-375, (2 diskettes), URL address is: http://ok.water.usgs.gov/gis/geology
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
Taff, J. A., 1901, Description of the Colgate quadrangle [Indian Territory]: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Atlas of the United States, Folio 74.
Geographic coverageHughes - Okfuskee - Okmulgee - Pontotoc

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