Boone Formation
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| Boone Limestone | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Mississippian | |
| File:BooneFormation.jpg Boone Formation along I-49 near the Arkansas-Missouri border | |
| Type | Formation |
| Sub-units | St. Joe Limestone Member |
| Underlies | Batesville Formation |
| Overlies | Chattanooga Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Limestone |
| Other | Chert |
| Location | |
| Region | Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma |
| Country | United States |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Boone County, Arkansas |
| Named by | John Casper Branner and Frederick William Simonds, 1891[1][2][3] |
The Boone Formation a discrete and definable unit of cherty limestone rock strata located in northwest Arkansas, Missouri and northeast Oklahoma.[1][4]
The stratigraphy of the Boone Formation dates to the Mississippian age.[4]
The Boone Formation is rich in fossils, and occasionally preserves the remains of sharks' teeth in outcrops along Buffalo National River.[5]: 64
Equivalent rocks of the Osagean in southwest Missouri include the Pierson Limestone, Fern Glen Formation, Reeds Spring Formation, Elsey Formation (including the Grand Falls Chert), Burlington Limestone and the Keokuk Limestone.[1]
See also
[edit | edit source]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value)..
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c Thompson, Thomas L., 2001, Lexicon of Stratigraphic Nomenclature in Missouri, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey, Report of Investigation Number 73, p 38
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Categories:
- Mississippian Arkansas
- Mississippian Missouri
- Mississippian Oklahoma
- Carboniferous southern paleotemperate deposits
- Carboniferous southern paleotropical deposits
- Mississippian Series
- Carboniferous System of North America
- Limestone formations of the United States
- Chert formations
- Geologic formations of Arkansas
- Geologic formations of Missouri
- Geologic formations of Oklahoma
- Southern United States geologic formation stubs
- Arkansas stubs
- Carboniferous stubs