Annona Chalk
Annona Chalk Stratigraphic range: Cretaceous | |
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![]() Outcrop east of Clarksville, TX (c. 1910) | |
Type | Formation |
Sub-units | Austin Group |
Underlies | Ozan Formation, Marlbrook Marl |
Overlies | Brownstown Marl, Ozan Formation |
Thickness | 30 Meters |
Lithology | |
Primary | Chalk |
Location | |
Region | Arkansas |
Country | United States |
Type section | |
Named for | Annona, Red River County, Texas[1] |
Named by | Robert Thomas Hill |
The Annona Chalk is a geologic formation in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.[2] It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period. The formation is a hard, thick-bedded to massive, slightly fossiliferous chalk. It weathers white, but is blue-gray when freshly exposed. The unit is commercially mined for cement. Fossils in the Annona Chalk include coelenterates, echinoderms, annelids, bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods, and some vertebrate traces.[3] The beds range in thickness, up to over 100 feet in depth in some areas (such as the White Cliffs).[4] There is a gradual transition between the Annona chalk and the underlying Brownstown formation, where chalk and marl are interbedded.[5]
Exposures
- Annona Chalk overlying Brownstown Marl at what is now called White Cliffs Natural Area, with the Little River in the foreground, Howard County, AR (c. 1910)
- Another view of the same location (c. 1902)
- Quarry at Whitecliffs Landing (c. 1902)
See also
References
- ↑ Hill, R.T. (1894). "Geology of parts of Texas, Indian Territory and Arkansas adjacent to Red River". Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 5: 308.
- ↑ USGS Geolex, Annona Chalk/Formation
- ↑ R. T. Hill. "ANNONA CHALK/FORMATION". Arkansas Geological Survey. v. 5: Arkansas Geological Survey. p. 308. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ↑ Veatch, Arthur Clifford (1906). Geology and Underground Water Resources of Northern Louisiana and Southern Arkansas. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ↑ Matson, G. C., 1916, The Caddo Oil and Gas Field, Louisiana and Texas, USGS Bulletin 619
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 8 July 2014.
- Notes on the Annona Chalk, Norman L. Thomas and Elmer M. Rice, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Dec., 1932), pp. 319-329
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