Monday, May 23, 2016

L38

Location   
36.18719, -93.39613 (Google Map)
Site name       
None
Type
Road cut approximately 370 ft long
Age/Formation/Unit  (in stratigraphic order)
Features of interest
Vertical section of 20+ ft .  General lithology limestone and white to red-stained chert. Flow-laminated crinoidal grainstone and irregular (lenticular?) replacement chert bodies with abundant fossil casts.  Complex relationships between grainstone and chert bodies, perhaps due to irregular limestone to chert replacement process. Local angular unconformity. Carbonate bank outflow channel?
Lithology present
Limestone, white chert
State/County    
AR / Carroll County
Access         
US412 north side 0.44 miles east of AR103
Support material available
Photos (15 iPhone) 
Site visit history
C. Liner 1/21/2013





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