| Abstract: | This map summarizes the geology of the Maumee 7.5-minute quadrangle in northern Arkansas. The map area is in the Ozark plateaus region on the southern flank of the Ozark dome. The Springfield Plateau, composed of Mississippian cherty limestone, overlies the Salem Plateau, composed of Ordovician carbonate and clastic rocks, with areas of Silurian rocks in between. Erosion related to the Buffalo River and its tributaries, Tomahawk, Water, and Dry Creeks, has exposed a 1,200-ft-thick section of Mississippian, Silurian, and Ordovician rocks mildly deformed by faults and folds. An approximately 130-mile-long corridor along the Buffalo River forms the Buffalo National River that is administered by the National Park Service.
McKnight (1935) mapped the geology of the Maumee quadrangle as part of a larger 1:125,000-scale map focused on understanding the lead and zinc deposits common in the area. Detailed new mapping for this study was compiled using a Geographic Information System (GIS) at 1:24,000 scale. Site location and elevation were obtained by using a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) receiver in conjunction with a U.S. Geological Survey 7.5-minute topographic map and barometric altimeter. U.S. Geological Survey 10-m digital elevation model data were used to derive a hill-shade-relief map used along with digital orthophotographs to map ledge-forming units between field sites. Bedding attitudes were measured in drainage bottoms and on well-exposed ledges. Bedding measured at less than 2 degree dip is indicated as horizontal. Structure contours constructed for the base of the Boone Formation are constrained by field-determined elevations on both upper and lower formation contacts. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 98852 |
| Citation Author: | Turner, Kenzie J.; Hudson, Mark R. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Geology and Environmental Change Science Center |
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| Citation Language: | ENGLISH |
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| Citation LatN: | 0360730 |
| Citation LatS: | 0360000 |
| Citation LonE: | -0923730 |
| Citation LonW: | -0924500 |
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| Citation No Pagination: | Y |
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| Citation Online Only Flag: | Y |
| Citation Phsyical Description: | PDF Map: 52.63 inches x 32.88 inches; Dowloads Directory |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Scientific Investigations Map |
| Citation Series Code: | SIM |
| Citation Series Number: | 3134 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Geologic map of the Maumee quadrangle, Searcy and Marion Counties, Arkansas; 2010; SIM; 3134; Turner, Kenzie J.; Hudson, Mark R. |
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| Citation Year: | 2010 |
| Type: | citation/reference |
| Text: | Geologic map of the Maumee quadrangle, Searcy and Marion Counties, Arkansas; 2010; SIM; 3134; Turner, Kenzie J.; Hudson, Mark R. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/sim_3134.jpg |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3134/ |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_94466.htm |
| Date Other: | Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00 -0500 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
