Microfacies sedimentology of the Lower-Middle Kindblade Formation, Slick Hills, Southwestern Oklahoma

MICROFACIES SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THE LOWER-MIDDLE KINDBLADE FORMATION (ORDOVICIAN), SLICK HILLS, SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA In the late Cambrian (Franconian), a marine transgression took place on the Laurentian craton throughout a range of Cambrian rhyolite hills, and is now exposed in the Slick Hills of Sou...

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Main Author:	Blair, Charles Grant
Other Authors:	Raymond N Donovan
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Language:	en
Published:	Texas Christian University 2013
Subjects:	College of Science and Engineering
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spelling	ndltd-TCU-oai-etd.tcu.edu-etd-05232013-1000582013-05-24T03:31:22Z Microfacies sedimentology of the Lower-Middle Kindblade Formation, Slick Hills, Southwestern Oklahoma Blair, Charles Grant College of Science and Engineering MICROFACIES SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THE LOWER-MIDDLE KINDBLADE FORMATION (ORDOVICIAN), SLICK HILLS, SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA In the late Cambrian (Franconian), a marine transgression took place on the Laurentian craton throughout a range of Cambrian rhyolite hills, and is now exposed in the Slick Hills of Southwestern Oklahoma. Evidence of the Cambro-Ordovician marine transgression is recorded in the Timbered Hills and the overlying Arbuckle Group. The Arbuckle Group is a 7, 000 ft. thick carbonate platform comprised of six formations: the Fort Sill, Signal Mountain, Mackenzie Hill, Cool Creek, Kindblade, and West Spring Creek at the top. Each formation displays diverse cyclic relationships persevered in the facies sequences and fauna. The present study examines an exposed portion of the Kindblade Formation. The exposure displays an extensive variety of microbial carbonates (stromatolites and thrombolites) as well as deep-water micritic fabrics and diagenetic features. Sediment analysis revealed the paleoenvironment as being a shallow subtidal open-marine environment with subtle cycles from storms and oscillating waves. These were differentiated by varying lithofacies associations found within thin sections and outcrop observations. Raymond N Donovan Helge Alsleben Art Busbey Texas Christian University 2013-05-23 text application/pdf http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-05232013-100058/ http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-05232013-100058/ en unrestricted I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached hereto a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below. I certify that the version I submitted is the same as that approved by my advisory committee. I hereby grant to TCU or its agents the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible, under the conditions specified below, my thesis, dissertation, or project report in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. I retain all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis, dissertation or project report. I also retain the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis, dissertation, or project report.
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description	MICROFACIES SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THE LOWER-MIDDLE KINDBLADE FORMATION (ORDOVICIAN), SLICK HILLS, SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA In the late Cambrian (Franconian), a marine transgression took place on the Laurentian craton throughout a range of Cambrian rhyolite hills, and is now exposed in the Slick Hills of Southwestern Oklahoma. Evidence of the Cambro-Ordovician marine transgression is recorded in the Timbered Hills and the overlying Arbuckle Group. The Arbuckle Group is a 7, 000 ft. thick carbonate platform comprised of six formations: the Fort Sill, Signal Mountain, Mackenzie Hill, Cool Creek, Kindblade, and West Spring Creek at the top. Each formation displays diverse cyclic relationships persevered in the facies sequences and fauna. The present study examines an exposed portion of the Kindblade Formation. The exposure displays an extensive variety of microbial carbonates (stromatolites and thrombolites) as well as deep-water micritic fabrics and diagenetic features. Sediment analysis revealed the paleoenvironment as being a shallow subtidal open-marine environment with subtle cycles from storms and oscillating waves. These were differentiated by varying lithofacies associations found within thin sections and outcrop observations.
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title	Microfacies sedimentology of the Lower-Middle Kindblade Formation, Slick Hills, Southwestern Oklahoma
title_short	Microfacies sedimentology of the Lower-Middle Kindblade Formation, Slick Hills, Southwestern Oklahoma
title_full	Microfacies sedimentology of the Lower-Middle Kindblade Formation, Slick Hills, Southwestern Oklahoma
title_fullStr	Microfacies sedimentology of the Lower-Middle Kindblade Formation, Slick Hills, Southwestern Oklahoma
title_full_unstemmed	Microfacies sedimentology of the Lower-Middle Kindblade Formation, Slick Hills, Southwestern Oklahoma
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Microfacies sedimentology of the Lower-Middle Kindblade Formation, Slick Hills, Southwestern Oklahoma

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