Compton Limestone

Compton Limestone
Stratigraphic range: Mississippian
TypeFormation
UnderliesNorthview Formation
OverliesCotter Formation, Chattanooga Shale
Thickness5 to 50 ft[1]
Lithology
PrimaryLimestone
OtherShale
Location
RegionMissouri (southwest): Springfield Plateau section of the Ozarks
CountryUnited States
Type section
Named forCompton, Webster County, Missouri
Named byRaymond Cecil Moore[2]

The Compton Limestone is a geologic formation in southwest Missouri.[1] It preserves brachiopod and echinoderm fossils of the Mississippian subperiod.[3] The Compton rests unconformably on the Cotter Dolomite of Ordovician age. The Compton was named for the community of Compton, Missouri, as the type sections were described for outcrops along the James River and its tributary the Compton Branch.[4]

  1. ^ a b Springfield Plateau Groundwater Province, Missouri Department of Natural Resources
  2. ^ Moore, R.C. (1928). "Early Mississippian formations in Missouri". Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines. 2nd Series. 21: 108–109, 111, 118–122, 131, 158.
  3. ^ The Stratigraphic Succession in Missouri, Missouri Geological Survey, Vol. XL 2nd series, 1961, pp 56-57
  4. ^ Geologic Unit: Compton, type locality Geolex, USGS