Crystal Mountain Sandstone

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Crystal Mountain Sandstone
Stratigraphic range: Ordovician
Type Formation
Unit ofnone
Sub-unitsnone
Underlies Mazarn Shale
Overlies Collier Shale
Thickness500 to 800 feet [1]
Lithology
Primary Sandstone
Location
Region Arkansas, Oklahoma
Country United 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]

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References

  1. ↑ McFarland, John David (2004) [1998]. "Stratigraphic summary of Arkansas" (PDF). Arkansas Geological Commission Information Circular. 36: 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  2. 1 2 Purdue, A.H. (1909). Slates of Arkansas. Geological Survey of Arkansas. pp. 30, 32.
  3. 1 2 Purdue, A.H. (1909). "Structure and stratigraphy of the Ouachita Ordovician area (abstract)" (PDF). Geological Society of America Bulletin. 19: 557. doi:10.1130/GSAB-19-513.
  4. ↑ Griswold, I.S. (1892). "Whetstones and the novaculites". Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890. 3.


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