Bonneterre Formation

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Bonneterre Formation
Stratigraphic range: Guzhangian (Dresbachian)
~501–497  Ma
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Galena in dolostone (Bonneterre Dolomite, Upper Cambrian; Flat Rock, Old Lead Belt, Missouri, USA) 2 (40704497164).jpg
Galena in Bonneterre Dolomite (Upper Cambrian; Missouri)
Type Formation
Underlies Davis Formation
Overlies Lamotte Sandstone [1]
Lithology
Primary Dolomite
Other Shale, limestone, sandstone
Location
Coordinates 37°38′10″N90°34′41″W / 37.636°N 90.578°W / 37.636; -90.578
Approximate paleocoordinates 22°54′S86°30′W / 22.9°S 86.5°W / -22.9; -86.5
Region Arkansas, [2] Kansas, [3] Illinois, Iowa, [4] Minnesota, [4] Missouri
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Bonneterre Formation (the United States)
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Bonneterre Formation (Missouri)

The Bonneterre Formation is an Upper Cambrian geologic formation which outcrops in the St. Francois Mountains of the Missouri Ozarks. The Bonneterre is a major host rock for the lead ores of the Missouri Lead Belt.

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Description

The formation is dominantly dolomite with areas or layers of pure limestone. A shaley or glauconitic zone occurs in the lower portion and the base contains sand and conglomerate or breccia where the formation overlaps the Lamotte and lies directly on the granite of the mountain core. [5]


Stratigraphy

Early geologists offered a variety of names for what is now known as the Bonneterre Formation. [1] In 1894, Missouri state geologist Arthur Winslow proposed St. Francois limestone as a name for thick limestone beds, [6] including everything between what are now known as the Lamotte Sandstone and the St. Peter Sandstone. [7] He described the lower part of that formation (now comprising the Bonneterre and the Elvins Group) [8] separately as the St. Joseph limestone. [9] Charles Rollin Keyes's Fredericktown limestone included everything between the Lamotte and the Potosi Dolomite when he first described it in 1896, but his later uses of the name were in a more restricted sense equivalent to the modern Bonneterre. [10]

In 1901, Frank Lewis Nason was the first to apply the name Bonneterre (originally spelled Bonne Terre) to these rocks, [1] identifying a type section near the city of Bonne Terre, Missouri. [11]

Contacts

The Bonneterre is conformably overlain by the Davis Formation. The Bonneterre Formation lies conformably on the Lamotte Sandstone and in places lies directly on the Proterozoic igneous core of the mountains.

Thickness

In the outcrop area the Bonneterre has an average thickness of 375 to 400 feet. It is present in the subsurface throughout Missouri and has a maximum recorded thickness of 1580 feet under Pemiscot County in the Missouri Bootheel. [5]


Fossils

The dolomites and limestones of the Bonneterre Formation contain fossils of late Cambrian invertebrates. Algal stromatolites, echinoderms, and microfossils such as Girvanella are associated with fringing reef paleoecosystems surrounding the Cambrian islands that are now the St. Francois Mountains. [12] A variety of trilobite fossils have been reported from the Bonneterre, including Coosella , Holcacephalus , Meteoraspis , Tricrepicephalus , and Welleraspis . [13] [14] Several monoplacophorans have also been described from the Bonneterre; one, Hypseloconus bonneterrense is named for the formation. [14] [15]


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References

  1. 1 2 3 Thompson 2001, p. 37.
  2. ↑ Kurtz et al. 1975, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Goebel 1968, p. 12.
  4. 1 2 Mossler 1987, p. 6.
  5. 1 2 Thompson 1995, pp. 18–19.
  6. ↑ Winslow 1894, pp. 331, 346, 349–354.
  7. ↑ Thompson 2001, p. 250.
  8. ↑ Thompson 2001, p. 251.
  9. ↑ Winslow 1894, pp. 331, 347.
  10. ↑ Thompson 2001, p. 110.
  11. ↑ Nason, F.L. (1901). "On the presence of a limestone conglomerate in the lead region of St. Francois County, Missouri". American Journal of Science. 4th. 12: 358–361.
  12. ↑ Lyle, J. R. (1977). "Petrography and carbonate diagenesis of the Bonneterre Formation in the Viburnum Trend area, Southeast Missouri". Economic Geology. 72 (3): 420–434. doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.72.3.420.
  13. ↑ Hu, Chung-Hung (1979). "692. Ontogenies of four Upper Cambrian trilobites from the Bonneterre Dolomite, Missouri". Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan. New Series. 1978 (111): 348–357. doi:10.14825/prpsj1951.1978.111_348.
  14. 1 2 Stinchcomb, B. L (1975). "Paleoecology of two new species of Late Cambrian Hypseloconus (Monoplacophora) from Missouri". Journal of Paleontology. 49 (2): 416–421. JSTOR   1303372.
  15. ↑ Stinchcomb, Bruce; Angeli, Nicholas (2002). "New Cambrian and Lower Ordovician monoplacophorans form the Ozark Uplift, Missouri". Journal of Paleontology. 76 (6): 965–974. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0965:NCALOM>2.0.CO;2.

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