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Wapanucka Formation and Chickachoc Chert

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ARDMORE-SHERMAN- Limestone, gray to brown, spicular, granular to oolitic; alternates with gray shale and calcareous sandstone; thickness, 270 to 720 feet. Chert content increases southeastward. Occurs in the OUACHITA MTNS. McALESTER TEXARKANA- Limestone, gray to brown, oolitic to granular, with sponge-spicular chert in middle 50 to 114 feet with overlying and underlying calcareous sandstones and shales; thickness, 600 to 700 feet, pinching out in subsurface near Ti Valley Fault. Occurs in the OUACHITA MTNS, NORTH OF TI VALLEY FAULT.
State Oklahoma
Name Wapanucka Formation and Chickachoc Chert
Geologic age Early Pennsylvanian
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale (Bed)
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed)
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)
Minor
Sedimentary > Chemical > Chert (Bed)
Comments Chickachoc Chert: First used as a chert lentil in the lower part of Atoka formation. Area of report is Coalgate quad, Coal Co, OK, Arkoma basin, where Chickachoc occurs in southeast corner of quad. Is about 80 ft thick and composed of stratified, yet massive, calcareous and cherty sandstone. (Taff, 1901).
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/geology

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr96370

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

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr96377

Taff, J.A., 1901, Description of the Colgate quadrangle [Indian Territory]: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Atlas of the United States, Folio 74.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/gf74
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Counties Atoka - Latimer - Pittsburg