This 1:24,000-scale geologic map includes new geologic mapping as well as compilation and revision of previous geologic maps. Field investigations were conducted from 2009-2011, while also mapping and investigating the geology and hydrology of the Chickasaw National Recreation Area, west of the map area. The Fittstown quadrangle is in the northeastern part of the Arbuckle Mountains. The Arbuckle Mountains are composed of a thick sequence of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks that overlie Early Cambrian and Precambrian igneous rocks; these latter rocks are not exposed in the quadrangle. From middle to late Pennsylvanian time, the Arbuckle Mountains region was folded, faulted, and uplifted. Periods of erosion followed these...
Types: Citation;
Tags: Arbuckle Mountains,
Arbuckle-Simpson aquifer,
Fittstown,
Franks fault zone,
Franks graben, All tags...
Geologic map,
Geomorphology,
Groundwater,
Hunton anticline,
Johnston County,
Pontotoc,
Pontotoc County,
South-central Oklahoma,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Fewer tags
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