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Volume: 12 (1928)

Issue: 7. (July)

First Page: 705

Last Page: 714

Title: Stratigraphy of Weatherford Area, Oklahoma

Author(s): Noel Evans (2)

Abstract:

The rocks exposed in the Weatherford, Oklahoma, area belong to the Permian series. They include in ascending order: the Dog Creek shale, Whitehorse sandstone, Day Creek dolomite, Cloud Chief gypsum, and the Quartermaster formation.

The zone between the Day Creek dolomite and the massive Cloud Chief gypsum, just west of Weatherford, consists of about 60 feet of loosely cemented sandstone beds and gypsum lentils. These gypsum lentils disappear and the thickness of the zone decreases toward the south. The depositional basin of Day Creek and early Cloud Chief time had its greatest depth northwest of the town of Weatherford.

The Quartermaster formation rests unconformably on Whitehorse sandstone, Day Creek dolomite, and, farther west, on Cloud Chief gypsum. Dolomite beds which cap the Caddo County buttes, southeast of Weatherford, belong to the Quartermaster, not to the Day Creek. These beds are unreliable for detailed structural work.

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