Bangor Limestone Explained

Bangor Limestone
Type:	Formation
Age:	Mississippian
Period:	Mississippian
Region:	Alabama and MississippiTennessee
Country:	United States

The Bangor Limestone is a fossil bearing Mississippian geologic formation in northern Alabama. It is a shallow marine carbonate formation in the Chesterian series.^[1]

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alabama
• Paleontology in Alabama

Sources

• Web site: Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database)). 17 December 2021.

Notes and References

1. Haywick, D. W., Kopaska-Merkel, D. C., & Bersch, M. G. (2009). A biodetrital coral mound complex; key to early diagenetic processes in the Mississippian Bangor Limestone. Carbonates and Evaporites, 24(1), 77-92. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF03228058.pdf