| Moorefield Formation | |
| Type: | Formation |
| Age: | Mississippian |
| Period: | Mississippian |
| Prilithology: | Shale |
| Otherlithology: | Limestone |
| Namedfor: | Moorefield, Independence County, Arkansas |
| Namedby: | George Irving Adams and Edward Oscar Ulrich[1] |
| Region: | Arkansas, Oklahoma |
| Country: | United States |
| Subunits: | Ruddell Shale |
| Underlies: | Batesville Formation |
| Overlies: | Boone Formation |
| Thickness: | up to 300 feet[2] |
The Moorefield Formation, or Moorefield Shale, is a geologic formation in northern Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma that dates to the Meramecian Series of the middle Mississippian. In Arkansas, this formation is generally recognized to have one member, the Ruddell Shale, in the upper Moorefield Formation.
A. confertus[3]
A. proutanus[3]
B. dubla[3]
B. parvula[3]
A. alaskense[4]
B. caronarius[4]
B. smithianus[4]
E. ornatus[4]
G. welleri[4]