Earth:Crystal Mountain Sandstone

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Crystal Mountain Sandstone
Stratigraphic range: Ordovician
TypeFormation
Unit ofnone
Sub-unitsnone
UnderliesMazarn Shale
OverliesCollier Shale
Thickness500 to 800 feet[1]
Lithology
PrimarySandstone
Location
RegionArkansas, Oklahoma
CountryUnited States
Type section
Named forCrystal Mountains, Montgomery County, Arkansas
Named byAlbert Homer Purdue[2][3]

The Crystal Mountain Sandstone is an Ordovician geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma. This interval was first described in 1892,[4] but remained unnamed until 1909 as part of a study on the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas by Albert Homer Purdue.[2][3]

See also

  • List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Arkansas
  • Paleontology in Arkansas

References

  1. McFarland, John David (2004). "Stratigraphic summary of Arkansas". Arkansas Geological Commission Information Circular 36: 18. http://geology.ar.gov/pdf/IC-36_v.pdf. Retrieved 2018-01-05. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Purdue, A.H. (1909). Slates of Arkansas. Geological Survey of Arkansas. pp. 30, 32. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Purdue, A.H. (1909). "Structure and stratigraphy of the Ouachita Ordovician area (abstract)". Geological Society of America Bulletin 19: 557. doi:10.1130/GSAB-19-513. https://zenodo.org/record/1716453/files/article.pdf. 
  4. Griswold, I.S. (1892). "Whetstones and the novaculites". Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890 3.