St. Joe Limestone Member | |
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Stratigraphic range: Mississippian | |
Type | Member |
Unit of | Boone Formation |
Overlies | Chattanooga Shale |
Thickness | up to 100 ft.[1] |
Lithology | |
Primary | Limestone |
Other | Chert |
Location | |
Region | Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma |
Country | United States |
Type section | |
Named for | St. Joe, Searcy County, Arkansas |
Named by | T.C. Hopkins[2] |
The St. Joe Formation or St. Joe Limestone Member is a geologic formation or member in northern Arkansas, southern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma.[1] It preserves fossils of the Mississippian subperiod including crinoids, brachiopods, bryozoa, conodonts, blastoids, ostracods and rugose coral.[1]