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Jackfork Sandstone

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The Jackfork Sandstone is a thin- to massive-bedded, fine- to coarse-grained, brown, tan, or gray quartzitic sandstone with subordinate brown, silty sandstone and dark gray shale. It outcrops from
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in the west, a distance of over 200 miles. It is highly weather-resistant, resulting in a continuous chain of prominent ridges, including
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associated with the Ouachita Fold and Thrust Belt exposed in western
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Jackfork Mountain, Pittsburg and Pushmataha Counties, Oklahoma
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U.S. Geological Survey Geological Atlas of the United States
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Taff, J.A. (1902). "Description of the Atoka quadrangle".
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Geologic formation in Oklahoma and Arkansas, United States
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Index

Stratigraphic range
Pennsylvanian

Formation
Johns Valley Shale
Stanley Shale
Ouachita Mountains
United States
geologic formation
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Pittsburg
Pushmataha
Pulaski County, Arkansas
Atoka County, Oklahoma
Rich Mountain
Ouachita Mountains
Aphlebia
Archaeocalamites
Bothrodendron
Calamites
Lepidodendron
Lepidostrobus
Neuropteris
Rhabdocarpos
Rhynchogonium
Sigillaria
Trigonocarpum

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