Roadside Geology of Oklahoma
by Neil H. Suneson
Roadside Geology of Oklahoma
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
1
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| Oklahoma's Rocks and Minerals |
1
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| Geologic Time, Stratigraphy, and Fossils |
14
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| Structural Uplifts, Basins, and Shelf Areas |
22
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| Geologic History of Oklahoma |
27
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| PROTEROZOIC EON |
27
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| The Western Granite-Rhyolite Province |
27
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| PALEOZOIC ERA |
30
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| Cambrian Rifting and Igneous Activity |
30
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| Cambrian through Early Mississippian Sedimentation |
35
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| Mountain Building and Basin Formation |
42
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| Ouachita Mountains and Arkoma Basin |
44
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| Arbuckle Mountains and Ardmore and Marietta Basins |
48
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| Wichita Mountains and Anadarko and Hollis Basins |
50
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| Permian Quiescence and Erosion |
52
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| MESOZOIC ERA |
56
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| Triassic and Jurassic Periods: The Missing Pieces |
56
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| Cretaceous Seaway |
57
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| CENOZOIC ERA |
60
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| Rocky Mountain Uplift and the Ogallala Formation |
60
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| The Great Rivers of Quaternary Time |
62
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| Oklahoma's Natural Resources |
64
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| Oil Brought Oklahoma to the Dance |
65
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| Coal Mining, Labor Unions, and Reclamation |
71
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| Water: Critical for Oklahoma's Future |
73
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| The High Plains |
77
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| OK 325 and US 412: Tri-State Monument - Guymon - Woodward |
80
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| Keyes Helium Plant |
88
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| Hugoton Gas Field |
90
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| Optima Dam and Its Missing Reservoir |
92
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| US 64: Guymon - Buffalo |
94
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| Playa Lake Basins |
97
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| Volcanic Ash North of Gate |
99
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| The Redbed Plains and Sandstone Hills |
101
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| Origin of the Red Color in Permian Rocks |
102
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| Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area |
104
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| Oklahoma City Oil Field |
106
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| Tulsa Metropolitan Area |
112
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| Interstate 35: Kansas Border - Edmond |
118
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| Midco Fossil Beds |
122
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| Central Oklahoma Aquifer |
123
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| Interstate 35: Norman - Davis |
125
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| Paoli Silver-Copper Deposit |
127
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| Interstate 40 and Historic Route 66: Texas Border - Clinton - Oklahoma City |
128
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| Red Rock Canyon Park |
134
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| Interstate 40: Oklahoma City - Henryetta |
135
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| Interstate 44: Fort Sill - Chickasha - Oklahoma City |
140
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| Permian Vertebrate Fossils at Richards Spur Quarry |
142
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| Interstate 44 (Turner Turnpike) and Historic Route 66: Oklahoma City - Tulsa |
145
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| Interstate 44 (Will Rogers Turnpike): Tulsa - Missouri Border |
151
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| Historic Route 66: Tulsa - Kansas Border |
151
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| Claremore Radium Baths |
155
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| Miami-Picher Lead-Zinc Mining District |
159
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| Tripoli Mining near Peoria |
161
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| US 64 and US 60: Buffalo - Alva - I-35 near Ponca City |
161
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| Cargill Solar Salt Plant at Big Salt Plain |
163
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| Alabaster Caverns State Park |
164
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| Hourglass Selenite at Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge |
168
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| US 60: I-35 near Ponca City - Bartlesville - Vinita |
170
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| Ponca City and E. W. Marland |
172
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| Prehistoric Chert Quarries in Kay County |
174
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| Burbank Oil Field |
174
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| Pawhuska and the Osage Reign of Terror |
178
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| US 69: Big Cabin (Vinita) - Muskogee - McAlester |
182
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| US 75: Kansas Border - Tulsa |
188
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| Bartlesville and the Bartlesville-Dewey Oil Field |
191
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| US 75: Tulsa - Henryetta |
192
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| Glenn Pool Oil Field |
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| US 81 (Chisholm Trail): Kansas Border - Enid - Duncan |
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| US 270 and US 281 Spur: Woodward - I-40 west of El Reno |
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| Roman Nose State Park |
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| US 270: Shawnee - McAlester |
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| Greater Seminole Oil Field |
214
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| US 281 and US 183: Kansas Border - Seiling - Hobart |
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| Stream Piracy and the Cimmaron and North Canadian Rivers |
222
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| US 412: Woodward - Enid - Tulsa |
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| Boiling Springs State Park |
229
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| Ames Impact Structure and Oil Field |
232
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| Redbed Copper Deposits |
236
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| Cheshewalla (Gypsy) Sandstone |
239
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| The Eastern Mountains and Hill Country |
241
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| Interstate 40: Henryetta - Sallisaw - Arkansas Border |
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| Indian Nation Turnpike: Henryetta - McAlester - Texas Border |
250
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| US 59: West Siloam Springs - Poteau - Heavener |
256
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| Spiro Mounds |
259
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| Heavener Runestone Park |
261
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| US 59 and US 259: Heavener - Idabel - Texas Border |
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| Beavers Bend State Park |
268
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| US 69: McAlester - Durant - Texas Border |
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| US 270: McAlester - Heavener |
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| US 412 and Cherokee Turnpike: Tulsa - West Siloam Springs at Arkansas Border |
281
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| Karst Aquifer at Natural Falls State Park |
286
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| OK 3: Atoka - Broken Bow |
287
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| Dinosaur Fossils in the Antlers Sandstone |
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| The Arbuckle and Wichita Mountains |
293
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| Interstate 35: Davis - Ardmore - Texas Border |
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| Southwest Davis Zinc Field |
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| Turner Falls |
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| Ardmore |
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| Lake Murray State Park |
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| Interstate 44: Texas Border - Lawton/Fort Sill |
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| US 62: Texas Border - Altus - Lawton |
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| Granite and Quartz Mountain Nature Park |
315
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| US 81 (Chisholm Trail): Duncan - Texas Border |
320
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| US 183: Hobart - Texas Border |
322
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| Glen Mountains Layered Complex |
326
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| Oklahoma-Texas-Red River Controversy |
328
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| OK 7: Lawton - Sulphur - Atoka |
329
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| Sho-Vel-Tum Oil Field |
332
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| The Initial Point |
333
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| Chickasaw National Recreation Area |
336
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| Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer |
338
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| Wichita Mountains and Slick Hills |
341
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| OK 49: Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge |
343
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| Mount Scott |
346
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| Meers and Saddle Mountain on OK 115 |
349
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| OK 58 (Slick Hills): Medicine Park - OK 19 |
351
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| Glossary |
353
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| References Cited and Supplemental Sources |
361
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| Index |
369
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