State | Oklahoma |
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Name | Timbered Hills Group |
Geologic age | Late Cambrian |
Lithologic constituents | Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed)
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Dolostone (Bed)
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)
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Comments | Timbered Hills Group: Named for East and West Timbered Hills of Arbuckle Mountains, South Oklahoma folded belt province. Group consists of (ascending): Reagan sandstone, brown quartzite and arkose conglomerate and coarse sandstones becoming limy at top, 460 ft thick; and Honey Creek formation, gray, crystalline, fossiliferous limestone containing glauconite, 124 ft thick. (Decker, 1939). |
References | Heran, W.D., Green, G. and Stoeser, D.B., 2003, A Digital Geologic Map Database of Oklahoma: USGS Open File Report 03-247, scale 1:250,000.https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr03247 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/geologyhttps://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr96370 Decker, C.E., 1939, Two Lower Paleozoic groups, Arbuckle and Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma: Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol.50, no.8, pp.1311-1322. |
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Counties | Atoka - Johnston - Murray |