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The Ouachita Basin of Oklahoma vis-a-vis the Craven Lowlands of Yorkshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. E. L. Dixon
E. E. L. Dixon
Affiliation:
H. M. Geological Survey
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In the Geological Magazine for February the limestone-boulders in the Bowland Shales of School Share near Settle were redescribed by Dr. R. G. S. Hudson and the writer, and the conclusion reached that they represented a landslip from a fault-scarp raised along part of the Craven Fault-system during the mid-Carboniferous earth-movement. Whilst that article was in the press the writer became aware that great limestone-boulders occur in the Caney Shale of Oklahoma and that they have occasioned much discussion or even, owing to their size and varied fossils, uncertainty as to the age of the associated beds. His interest was piqued, for he recalled that a close comparison had been drawn by Bisat between the contrast of Bowland Shale (Culm) and Yoredale facies of sedimentation, displayed in the Craven Lowlands and in the Craven Uplands and the Yorkshire Dales, and a contrast in Oklahoma between the sedimentation in the Ouachita Mountains and that in the nearby Arbuckle Mountains.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 68 , Issue 8 , August 1931 , pp. 337 - 344
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1931

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page 337 note 1 “A Yorkshire Carboniferous (Bowland Shale) Fauna in Oklahoma, U.S.A.”: Naturalist, 1924, 86–8.Google Scholar

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page 340 note 1 Op. cit.; and in Miser and Honess, 23–4.

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page 341 note 1 It is difficult to fix the position, in this country, of the Wapanucka Limestone, as it is not developed with the same facies, it is generally regarded as the base of the Pennsylvanian and its horizon, therefore, it not far from the base of the Namurian.

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page 344 note 1 See, e.g., Ulrich, op. cit., Bull. 45, 27; and Miser and Honess, op. cit., fig. 2 and p. 25. These authors clearly regard the contact as one of original deposition.

page 344 note 2 As shown, without committing themselves, in Miser and Honess, fig. 2A.