Stratigraphy of Upper Mississippian rocks above the Tuscumbia Limestone in northern Alabama and northeastern Mississippi

10.3133/oc58 ◽  
1958 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mississippian Rocks

The major pre-Mississippian unconformity in Rock Canyon, central Wasatch Range, Utah

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
David Clark ◽  
Drew Derenthal ◽  
Bart Kowallis ◽  
Scott Ritter
Keyword(s):  
Upper Devonian ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Preliminary Work ◽  
Mississippian Rocks

In central Utah, the major pre-Mississippian unconformity is fairly well understood at most of the localities where it is recognized. However, the unconformity is more enigmatic in Rock Canyon of the central Wasatch Range. At this locality, dolomitization of most pre-Mississippian rocks obscures stratigraphic identification of Devonian and older units. The absence of any identifiable angular relationship further complicates resolution. Because of this, both identification of the stratigraphic level of the unconformity and, consequently, its magnitude remain controversial. Large-size dolomite samples taken in Rock Canyon at closely spaced intervals for the 3.6-m directly below definite Upper Devonian rocks yield microfossils, including conodonts, in the uppermost 1.6-m of that interval that indicate no unconformity exists between the Cambrian Maxfield Limestone and the Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Fitchville Dolomite at the horizon previously identified as unconformable. Rather, an unknown thickness of dolomitized Upper Devonian Pinyon Peak Formation and probable older rock (possibly Bluebell Dolomite and Victoria Formation) occurs between the top of definite Maxfield and base of the Fitchville. The identification of the unconformity horizon remains unknown. Our preliminary work outlines a promising procedure for future understanding of the magnitude and stratigraphic level of the unconformity.

The presence of 18α(H)-oleanane in Pennsylvanian and Mississippian rocks in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma

2021 ◽  
pp. 104181
Author(s):  
Paul Philp ◽  
Matthew Wood ◽  
Yagmur Sumer Gorenekli ◽  
Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Carl Symcox ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anadarko Basin ◽  
Mississippian Rocks

Pseudomulceodens: A Mississippian rostroconch from Mexico

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 1184-1186 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Quiroz-Barroso ◽  
John Pojeta ◽  
Francisco Sour-Tovar ◽  
Salvador Morales-Soto
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Mississippian Rocks

This finding of Pseudomulceodens in Mississippian-age rocks of the Santiago Formation provides the first evidence of the molluscan class Rostroconchia in Mexico. Elsewhere in North American Mississippian rocks the class occurs in Arkansas (Hoare et al., 1982, 1988); Illinois (Weller, 1916); Indiana (Beede, 1906); Iowa (White and Whitfield, 1862); Michigan (Winchell, 1870); Montana and Nevada (Pojeta and Runnegar, 1976); Ohio (Hyde, 1953; Hoare, 1990); and Oklahoma (Branson, 1958).

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