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Oklahoma Geologic Quadrangle OGQ-40

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Geologic Map of the Woodward

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OKLAHOMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

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Charles J. Mankin, Director 30′ X 60′ Quadrangle
(previously Open-File Report OF13-2003)

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CORRELATION OF UNITS
Pfp

Holocene
Pcc Pbl Qal
Qao

QUATERNARY
Prs Pdc Pbl
Qcs Qao
Qds Qao
Qds
Qds
Qcs

Pleistocene
Qao2

CENOZOIC
Prs Qds
Qds Prs
Qds Qcs Qtg
Pmw Pfp

UNCONFORMITY

Miocene - Pliocene
Pbl

NEOGENE
Nog Qal Qao
Nog

Pmw
Pmw
Qds Prs
UNCONFORMITY

CRETACEOUS
MESOZOIC

Comanchean?
Prs
Pbl Kud
Qao Qao
Qao
Nog Qal
Qal
Pdc
Qao
Qds
Qds
UNCONFORMITY

Ochoan
Qao
Qao Pcc
Qao Prs

UPPER PERMIAN
Prs

PALEOZOIC
Pmw Qal
Qds
Qds Pmw

Guadalupian
Pmw Pmw Pdc
Nog

Pbl
Qds

Pmw Pfp
Qds
Qds

DESCRIPTION OF UNITS
Qal Qao

Prs
Qao
ALLUVIUM—Unconsolidated sand, silt, clay, and gravel in stream and river
Qal channels on modern flood plains
Qao
Qds
Qds Qao
OLDER ALLUVIUM—Unconsolidated sand, silt, clay, and gravel in stream
Qao and river channels concentrated between 0 and 12 m above modern flood
Qal Qal
Qao plains
Qds
OLDER ALLUVIUM—Unconsolidated sand, silt, clay, and gravel in stream
Qao2 and river channels concentrated between 12 and 24 m above modern flood
plains

Qal DUNE SAND—Unconsolidated windblown sand formed into definite dune

Qds
Qds structures and ridges
Qds Pmw
Qds
Prs COVER SHEET SAND—Featureless sheet of windblown silt and sand
Qcs
Qcs

TERRACE GRAVEL—Unconsolidated gravel, sand, silt, and clay laid down

Nog Qtg
at several levels along former courses of present-day streams

Prs UNCONFORMITY
OGALLALA FORMATION—Mostly unconsolidated to well-cemented, light
Nog
gray to light brown stream-laid deposits of sand, silt, clay, and gravel
together with local caliche and volcanic ash. Where exposed, base usually
consists of a well-indurated bed of conglomerate with basalt, limestone, and
dolomite clasts

Pmw UNCONFORMITY
CRETACEOUS UNDIVIDED—Chaotic mixture of large blocks of Dakota
Kud and Cheyenne Sands tones intercalated with Ki owa Shal e.
Qal
Formed from subsurface salt dissolution and collapse into older formations

UNCONFORMITY
CLOUD CHIEF FORMATION—Reddish-brown to orange brown,
Nog Pcc
Nog locally greenish-gray shale locally interbedded with thin, reddish-brown fine-
Kud grained sandstone and siltstone. Bedding usually chaotic due to slumping,
Qal Kud calcite veining common. Base mapped at the Moccasin Creek gypsum bed

RU S H S PR IN GS FORM AT ION— Reddi sh-br own, fine -grained

Prs sandstone, commonly cross-bedded, with local interbeds of reddish-brown
Kud shale. Upper third of unit contains several thin gypsum beds
Kud

Prs MA RLO W F ORMATION—Us ually a soft-weathering, orange-

Pmw brown, fine-grained sandstone, with local interbeds of very sandy shale and
siltstone

Kud
DOG CREEK SHALE—Poorly exposed sequence of alternating
Pdc reddish-brown shale, silty shale, and siltstone, with thin gypsum beds and
Qtg
Qtg stringers occurring throughout. Base mapped at top of highest massive
Qtg Pcc Blaine gypsum bed
Qal
Qtg Pcc
BLAINE FORMATION—Alternating sequence of four massive gypsum beds
Qal Pcc Pbl with reddish-brown shale
Qal
Pcc
Qtg
FLOWERPOT SHALE—Reddish-brown silty shale; upper part with
Pfp alternating thin gypsum beds underlying that give unit a characteristic
striped pattern at a distance
Qtg Qtg

Pcc SYMBOLS
Pcc Unit contact; approximately located
Prs Qao
Prs Qao
Pcc Qao2
Qtg Qtg
Prs Qal
Qal
Qal Prs
Qtg
Qtg Pcc
Pcc Qao Qao Qal

MAP REFERENCES 8½ ° 103° 102° 101° 100° 99° 98° 97° 96° 95°
37°
Base Map Credits

Boise City
The base map was compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey from 1:24000-scale
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topographic maps dated 1969-1970. Planimetry revised from aerial photographs taken
University of Oklahoma unpublished M.S. thesis, 42p. 1983. Map edited 1985. Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection. 1927 North
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TRUE NORTH

Keystone Tulsa Fayetteville American Datum. 25,000-foot grid ticks based on Oklahoma coordinate system, north
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2. Birchum, J.M., 1963, Areal geology of northwestern Dewey County, Oklahoma: Woodward Fairview Enid
Lake zone. 10,000-meter UTM grid, zone 14.
36°
University of Oklahoma unpublished M.S. thesis, 33p.
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Watonga Oklahom a
Bristow
Muskogee Stilwell Geologic Map Credits
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Survey Bulletin 47, 116p. Geology compiled and field checked by Thomas M. Stanley, 2001. Research
Oklahom a Fort Smith
Elk City Anadarko
City South
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central Oklahoma: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report OR-96-381, scale contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as
1:250,000. APPROXIMATE MEAN DECLINATION Altus Lawton Pauls Valley Ada McAlester Mena
necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S.
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34° 2002.
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Gainesville Sherman
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Counties, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma unpublished M.S. thesis, 81p. quadrangles. Red shaded quadrangle represents the current
map
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quadrangle, northwestern Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological Survey Hydrologic Atlas
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University of Oklahoma unpublished M.S. thesis, 70p.

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GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE WOODWARD 30′ X 60′ QUADRANGLE,
University of Oklahoma unpublished M.S. thesis, 79p.
ELLIS, DEWEY, ROGER MILLS, AND WOODWARD COUNTIES, OKLAHOMA
Compiled by Thomas M. Stanley
Cartography by G. Russell Standridge
2002