The Mazarn Shale is an Early Ordovician geologic formation in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma. This interval was first described in 1892,[3] but remained unnamed until 1918 as part of a study by U.S. Geological Survey geologist Hugh Dinsmore Miser.[2]

Mazarn Shale
Stratigraphic range: Ordovician
TypeFormation
Unit ofnone
Sub-unitsnone
UnderliesBlakely Sandstone
OverliesCrystal Mountain Sandstone
Thickness1000 to 2500+ feet[1]
Lithology
PrimaryShale
Location
RegionArkansas, Oklahoma
CountryUnited States
Type section
Named forMazarn Creek, Montgomery County, Arkansas
Named byHugh Dinsmore Miser[2]

Paleofauna

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C. wrighti[4]
C. antennarius[4]
D. caduceus[4]
D. caduceus nana[4]
D. extensus[4][5]
D. filiformis[4]
D. nitidus[4]
D. similis[4]
G. hystrix[4]
P. typus[4]
T. clarkei[4]
T. fruticosus[4]
T. quadribrachiatus[4]
T. pendens[4]
T. serra[4]
T. similis[4]

See also

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References

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  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 2018-01-08.
  2. ^ a b Miser, H.D. (1918). "Manganese deposits of the Caddo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, Arkansas". U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin. 660-C: 68.
  3. ^ Griswold, I.S. (1892). "Whetstones and the novaculites". Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890. 3.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Miser, Hugh D.; Purdue, A.H. (1929). "Geology of the De Queen and Caddo Gap quadrangles, Arkansas". U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin. 808: 27–28.
  5. ^ a b Pitt, William D.; Cohoon, Richard R.; Lee, Harry C.; Robb, Marion G; Watson, John (January 1961). "Ouachita Mountain core area, Montgomery County, Arkansas". Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. 45 (1): 79–80. Retrieved 8 January 2018.