Geologic Map of the Boise City 30' X 60' Quadrangle

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E OKLAHOMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Geologic Map of the Boise City K Y O Charles J. Mankin, Director ′ ′ 1 30 X 60 Quadrangle 9 8 0 0 8 0 2 (previously Open-File Report OF17-2003) CE L NTENNIA

CORRELATION OF UNITS Kda Qcs 150 000 FEET TRdo Jmo Kda Qcs (KANS.) Kda Kda Y Qal R Qal 125 000 FEET Jex Kkc Kkc Kkc Qcs Kda Qal Qcl A (COLO.) Jmo Jmo Kda Nog QpyQpy Kda N T 6 N Kkc Nog R QtgQtg

Kda Kkc Qds E QdsQds TRdo Nog Jmo T QcsQcs QclQcl

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UNION CO. Jmo Kkc

Jex O 750 Kda Kda Kda Kkc Nog N Kda Jex E UNCONFORMITY Jex Tog Jmo Kda Kkc C 1 075 Jmo Jmo TR do Kda Qal Nog Nrb 4090000mN Nrb Jex Jmo Kkc Kkc NEOGENE MiocenePliocene - Qal Kda Kkc Qal Kkc Nog Kda Kda 125 Jmo Nog Kkc Kda Jmo TR do UNCONFORMITY Rdo Kkc Kkc T Kkc Kkc Kda Jmo 100 Kda Nog Nog Jmo Kkc Jmo Qpy KggKgg Kda TR do Gulfian Jex Kkc Jmo Qal Jmo Jex Qds Kda Qpy Kkc Nog CRETACEOUS U. NEW MEXICO Kda T 5 N Jmo Kda Nog TR do 725 Kda Kda Jex Kda TR do Kda Kkc Nog Kkc Kkc Qcl Jex KdaKda 1 050 Kkc Kkc Jex Qal KkcKkc Kgg Comanchean Nog

Kda L. CRETACEOUS Jmo Kkc Kda Kkc 100 Kkc Jmo UNCONFORMITY 408 Jmo Nog 75

Kda MESOZOIC Kda Kda Jmo Qal Kkc Qpy Qpy UNCONFORMITY Kkc Kgg Nog Qpy Qpy Nog Kkc Qpy

700 U. JURASSIC

Callovian Trithonian - Callovian Jex Jmo Qpy Kda Qpy 1 025 T 4 N UNCONFORMITY

Kgg Qpy TRdo Qpy T Kgg Nog Qpy Norian Qpy 75

Qpy U. TRIASSIC Qpy Qpy Qpy Kgg Qpy Qpy Qpy 50 Qpy Qpy Qpy DESCRIPTION OF UNITS Qcl Qpy Qpy Qpy Qpy Qpy 407 ALLUVIUM—Sand and silt: sand deposits are fine- to coarse-grained quartz, Qcs Qal Qpy Qal cross-bedded to massive, lenticular, reddish brown, pink, gray; silt deposits Nog Qpy are poorly-sorted, lenticular; thickness 3 to 15 meters (10 to 50 feet) 45' Qpy TERRACE GRAVEL—Gravel, sand, and silt: gravel is sandy, composed of Qpy Qpy QtgQtg 1 000 Qpy Qpy pebbles and cobbles of quartz, quartzite, and caliche; sand and silt are similar Qpy Qpy Nog Nog to Holocene alluvium

Qpy Qpy Qpy Qpy PLAYA DEPOSIT—Clay and silt: sandy, gray, in shallow depressios; wea-

UNION CO. Qpy Qpy Qpy Qcl thers light gray (Wisconsinan to Holocene). Includes Randall clay soil T 3 N Qcl (Murphy and others, 1960) 50 Qpy Qpy Qpy Qpy Qpy Qpy 25 Qpy DUNE SAND—Sand and silt: locally occurs in dunes and dune ridges Qpy Qpy Qds

Qpy Qpy Qpy Qpy Qpy Qpy Qpy COVER SAND—Sand and silt: occurs in sheets, locally modified by surface Qpy Qpy Qcs wash; thickness up to 30 meters (100 feet) or more, average thickness 12 NEW MEXICO Qpy meters (40 feet) Qpy Qpy 650 Qcl Qpy Qpy COVER LOESS—Windblown silt, similar to Qcs except for finer grain size; Qcl thickness less than 1.5 meters (5 feet) 975 Qpy Qpy Qpy Qcs Qpy Qpy Qpy UNCONFORMITY Qpy RATON(?) BASALT—Fine-grained, small olivine phenocrysts comprise Nog Qcl NrbNrb about 10 percent of rock; groundmass is nearly equal amounts of augite, Qal Qpy Qpy 25 Qcl Qpy Qpy magnetite, and slightly more labradorite; compact to vesicular dark- to light- olivine gray Qal 00 Qcl Qcs Qpy OGALLALA FORMATION—Mostly unconsolidated to weakly cemented, light Kda Nog T 2 N gray to light brown stream-laid deposits of sand, silt, clay, and gravel capped Kda Qpy Qpy by light-colored caliche. Some fossiliferous freshwater limestone and Qpy Qpy volcanic ash locally. Where exposed, base may consist of a well-indurated Nog Kda Qpy Qpy bed of conglomerate with basalt, limestone, and dolomite clasts; thickness up to 91 meters (300 feet); may include Pleistocene deposits 625 Kda along major streams Qal Qpy Qpy 950 UNCONFORMITY Nog Qpy Nog GREENHORN LIMESTONE AND GRANEROS SHALE, Qcs Qal Nog Kgg UNDIVIDED—Greenhorn Limestone of Colorado Group: fine-grained, thin- Qtg Nog Qpy bedded, gray to bluish-white; some brownish-yellow shale; Inoceramus Nog common as fragments and complete shells; thickness 21 meters (70 feet) 0 Qpy Graneros Shale of Colorado Group: gray to brownish-yellow, interbeds of limestone; gray to white bentonite at top; thickness 20 meters (65 feet)

Kda Qpy Qcs Kda Qcl Qpy Qcs Qpy DAKOTA FORMATION—Composed of three divisions; upper division is KdaKda UNION CO. Qpy sandstone, brownish-yellow; thickness about 15 to 46 meters (50 to 150 feet); Qcl Qpy Qpy middle division is gray shale with thin coal beds; thickness about 15 meters Nog (50 feet); lower division is sandstone, quartzitic, ferrunginous, pink, gray, 600 000 FEET white, black, brownish-yellow; 35 to 46 meters (115 to 150 feet) thick (OKLA.) T 1 N Qpy KIOWA SHALE AND CHEYENNE SANDSTONE, UNDIVIDED (Equivalent to Qpy KkcKkc 925 000 FEET Purgatorie Formation of eastern Colorado and New Mexico)— Kiowa Shale, Qcl Qpy Qal Qpy (TEX.) Qal upper part, consists of dark gray marine shale with abundant Gryphaea ; Qpy Qpy Qpy thickness 4 to 19 meters (12 to 63 feet) Cheyenne Sandstone, lower part, consists of white, cross-bedded sandstone Qal Qpy Qpy Qal Qpy Qpy and local conglomerate; conglomerate consists of quartzite and schist pebbles, silicified tree trunks and wood common; thickness up to 21 meters Qal Kda Qpy Qpy (70 feet), thinner to the east Qal Nog Nog Qpy Qal NEW MEXICO Nog Qpy Qcl Qcl Qcl Qpy Nog Qcl Qcl Qpy Nog UNCONFORMITY MORRISON FORMATION—Silty sandstone, limestone, and shale; Jmo sandstone is yellowish brown with variegated speckles; limestone is gray; shale is gray to maroon to orange-brown; fossil dinosaur bones common;

° 103° 102° 101° 100° 99° 98° 97° 96° 95° INDEX MAP MAP REFERENCES 1½ 37° Base Map Credits thickness 23 to 152 meters (75 to 100 feet), thins eastward 103°00’ 102°00’ TEXT REFERENCES Boise C Neosho The base map was compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey from 1:24000-scale 37°00’ 37°00’ 1. Barnes, V.E., 1984, Geologic Atlas of Texas, Dalhart Sheet: Bureau of Economic ity Guymon Beaver Buffalo Alva Ponca City Pawhuska Bartlesville topographic maps dated 1968-1971. Planimetry revised from aerial photographs taken Geology, The University of Texas, Austin, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000. H T H 1979 and other source data. Map edited 1982. Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) R T Keystone yetteville UNCONFORMITY O 1. R Woodward Fairview Enid Tulsa Fa projection. 1927 North American Datum. 25,000-foot grid ticks based on Oklahoma N 6. 2. O Lake Rockroth, E.P., 1923, Geology of Cimarron County, Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geological 36° N C

coordinate system, north zone and Kansas coordinate system, south zone. 10,000- Survey Bulletin 34, 107p. I Murphy, R.S., Abernathy, E.J., Allgood, F.P., Warth, P.R., Meinders, H.C., Wammack, L.W., E T

U E meter UTM grid, zone 13. The far western part of the map contains part of the Capulin Foss Oklahoma uskogee ll R N M lwe Watonga Bristow Sti and Icenhower, J.C., 1960, Soil survey of Cimarron County, Oklahoma: U.S. Department of EXETER FORMATION—Quartz-rich sandstone, crossbedded, white; T Reservoir ¢¢ 3. Sapik, D.B., And Geomeat, R.L., 1973, Reconnaissance of the ground water resources G City North Mountain 30 X 60 quadrangle of eastern New Mexico to the Oklahoma border. 2. - 4. A JexJex of Cimarron County, Oklahoma: U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Atlas HA-373, 3 M Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, Series 1956, No. 11, 53 p., 108 plates. thickness 12 meters (38 feet) Oklahoma Geologic Map Credits Elk City Anadarko Shawnee Eufaula Fort Smith sheets, scale 1:125,000. City South 6. 35° Geology compiled and field checked by Kenneth V. Luza, 1999-2000. The northern 4. Schoff, S.L., 1943, Geology of ground water resources of Cimarron County, Oklahoma: part of the quadrangle includes the southern part of Baca County, Colorado and Mortan a Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 64, 317p. APPROXIMATE MEAN DECLINATION Altus Lawton Pauls Valley Ada McAlester Men 5. County, Kansas. Research supported by the U.S. Geological Survey, National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, under Assistance Award Number 1434-HQ- UNCONFORMITY 5. , 1939, Geology and ground water resources of Texas County, Oklahoma: SYMBOLS 97-AG-01798. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 59, 248p. Vernon Burkburnett Ardmore Tishomingo Antlers De Queen 1. authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, 34° either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Government. Originally published as Open-File DOCKUM GROUP, UNDIVIDED—Sheep Pen Sandstone, Sloan Canyon 6. Stovall, J.W., 1943, Plate II, Geologic map of northwestern Cimarron County, in Schoff, Idabel Wichita Falls Paris Report OF-17-2003. Map revised and published as OGQ-43. Cartography and layout TTRRdodo 2. - 4. S.L., 1943, Geology and ground water resources of Cimarron County, Oklahoma: Gainesville Sherman Formation, and Trujillo Formations, undivided prepared by G. Russell Standridge, 2003. Unit contact; approximately located Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 64, 317p. Sheep Pen Sandstone: even bedded, brown to yellowish-brown; thickness 5 36°30’ 36°30’ Map of Oklahoma showing the locations of the 30′′ X 60 103°00’ 102°00’ quadrangles. Red shaded quadrangle represents the current meters (15 feet) map Sloan Canyon Formation: shale, maroon to greenish-gray; thickness 21 to 38 meters (70 to 125 feet) ′′ Trujillo Formation: sandstone and conglomerate, brownish-yellow to GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BOISE CITY 30 X 60 QUADRANGLE, reddish-brown; some shale, variegated; thickness 15 to 30 meters (50 to 100 CIMARRON AND TEXAS COUNTIES, OKLAHOMA feet); formation crops out in Cimarron Valley north-northeast of Boise City Compiled by Kenneth V. Luza and Robert O. Fay Cartography by G. Russell Standridge 2003