St. Joe Formation Explained

St. Joe Limestone Member
Type:Member
Age:Mississippian
Prilithology:Limestone
Otherlithology:Chert
Namedfor:St. Joe, Searcy County, Arkansas
Namedby:T.C. Hopkins[1]
Region:Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
Country:United States
Unitof:Boone Formation
Overlies:Chattanooga Shale
Thickness:up to 100 ft.

The St. Joe Formation or St. Joe Limestone Member is a geologic formation or member in northern Arkansas, southern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma. It preserves fossils of the Mississippian subperiod including crinoids, brachiopods, bryozoa, conodonts, blastoids, ostracods and rugose coral.[2]

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  1. Hopkins. T.C.. Marbles and other limestones. Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890. 1893. 4. 10, 91, 150, 209–211, 244, 249, 253–349, 383, pl. 3.
  2. http://www.geology.ar.gov/geology/ozark_mississippian.htm St. Joe Limestone