7: Tournaisian (Mississippian) Carbonate Mounds in the Ozark Region, North America and Ireland: A Comparison
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Published:January 01, 2019
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Morgan A. Unrast, Jim Puckette, Jay M. Gregg, Ian D. Somerville, 2019. "Tournaisian (Mississippian) Carbonate Mounds in the Ozark Region, North America and Ireland: A Comparison", Mississippian Reservoirs of the Midcontinent, G. Michael Grammer, Jay M. Gregg, James Puckette, Priyank Jaiswal, S. J. Mazzullo, Matthew J. Pranter, Robert H. Goldstein
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ABSTRACT
Mississippian (Tournaisian–Viséan) carbonate mounds in the Compton and Pierson limestones, Ozark region, North America, have been called Waulsortian. However, European Waulsortian mounds contain features such as geopetals with multigenerations of carbonate mud (polymuds) and stromatactis cavity systems that are rare to absent in Ozark mounds. To determine similarities and differences, examine their origins, and clarify nomenclature, mounds in the Compton and Pierson limestones are compared with Waulsortian mounds in the Feltrim Limestone, Ireland. Features considered included mound size, geometry, style of aggradation, composition, depositional setting, and diagenetic history.
Mounds in the Compton and Pierson limestones are <10 m (33...
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Mississippian Reservoirs of the Midcontinent
GeoRef
- Anthozoa
- Arkansas
- bedding plane irregularities
- Benton County Arkansas
- carbonate rocks
- Carboniferous
- Cnidaria
- correlation
- Delaware County Oklahoma
- Dublin Ireland
- Europe
- Ireland
- Lower Mississippian
- McDonald County Missouri
- Mississippian
- Missouri
- mounds
- North America
- Oklahoma
- Ozark Mountains
- paleogeography
- Paleozoic
- Porifera
- sedimentary rocks
- sedimentary structures
- Stone County Missouri
- Stromatoporoidea
- Tabulata
- Tournaisian
- United States
- Western Europe
- Zoantharia
- Dublin Basin
- Pierson Limestone
- Shannon Trough
- Compton Limestone
- Waulsortian Mound
- Compton Mound