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Volume: 51 (1967)

Issue: 8. (August)

First Page: 1690

Last Page: 1690

Title: Depositional Environment of Spiro Sands in Arkoma Basin: ABSTRACT

Author(s): Ray H. Potts, Jr.

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

Isopachous maps, electric-log cross sections, and Kodachrome slides of the Spiro Sands in Wilburton, Kinta, and Milton-Catersville fields are used to illustrate and writer's interpretation of the depositional environment of these sandstones in the Arkoma basin.

At least three sandstones, differing genetically and in age, have bene termed the Spiro Sand in the Arkoma basin.

In the Wilburton field, the Spiro Sand appears to be a marine facies of the Wapanucka Limestone and possibly is Morrowan in age.

Such characteristics, as geometry of the sandstone bodies, sedimentary structures, composition, nature of the boundaries, and other features, lead the writer to believe that, in the Kinta and Milton-Cartersville areas, the Spiro Sands were deposited in an environment likely to have channel, as well as transgressive, unconformity sandstone deposits.

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