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Missouri Mountain Shale

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Missouri Mountain Shale
Stratigraphic range: Silurian
TypeFormation
Unit ofnone
Sub-unitsnone
UnderliesArkansas Novaculite
OverliesBlaylock Sandstone
Thicknessup to 300 feet[1]
Lithology
PrimaryShale
Location
RegionArkansas, Oklahoma
CountryUnited States
Type section
Named forMissouri Mountains, Polk County and Montgomery County, Arkansas
Named byAlbert Homer Purdue[2][3]

The Missouri Mountain Shale is a Silurian geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma in the United States. First described in 1892,[4] this unit was not named until 1909 by Albert Homer Purdue in his study of the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas.[2][3] Purdue assigned the Missouri Mountains in Polk and Montgomery counties, Arkansas as the type locality, but did not designate a stratotype. As of 2017, a reference section for this unit has yet to be designated.

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  1. ^ McFarland, John David (2004) [1998]. "Stratigraphic summary of Arkansas" (PDF). Arkansas Geological Commission Information Circular. 36: 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  2. ^ a b Purdue, A.H. (1909). Slates of Arkansas. Geological Survey of Arkansas. pp. 30, 35.
  3. ^ a b Purdue, A.H. (1909). "Structure and stratigraphy of the Ouachita Ordovician area, Arkansas (abstract)". Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 19: 556–557.
  4. ^ Griswold, L.S. (1892). "Whetstones and the novaculites". Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890. 3.