Bangor Limestone

Bangor Limestone
Bangor Limestone
Stratigraphic range: Mississippian
	Horncoral from the Bangor Formation.
Type	Formation
Location
Region	Alabama and Mississippi Tennessee
Country	United States

Last updated August 02, 2025

The Bangor Limestone is a fossil bearing Mississippian geologic formation in northern Alabama. It is a shallow marine carbonate formation in the Chesterian series.^[1]

References

↑ Haywick, D. W., Kopaska-Merkel, D. C., & Bersch, M. G. (2009). A biodetrital coral mound complex; key to early diagenetic processes in the Mississippian Bangor Limestone. Carbonates and Evaporites, 24(1), 77-92. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF03228058.pdf

Sources

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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[1] Haywick, D. W., Kopaska-Merkel, D. C., & Bersch, M. G. (2009). A biodetrital coral mound complex; key to early diagenetic processes in the Mississippian Bangor Limestone. Carbonates and Evaporites, 24(1), 77-92. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF03228058.pdf

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