North-Central Section - 49th Annual Meeting (19-20 May 2015)

Paper No. 1
Presentation Time: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

POSTERS OF THE MARKER BEDS AND SEDIMENTARY CYCLES OF THE OSAGEAN STRATOTYPE IN MISSOURI


HAINES, Forest, Earth Science, Adrian College, 101 S. Madison St, Adrian, MI 49221, fhaines@adrian.edu

Posters of the stratigraphic units from Dolbee Creek to the Keokuk illustrate cyclic sedimentation of each unit. Each starts with grainstone caused by global warming, followed with slow sedimentation and glauconite, and ends with three cycles of coarse grained crinoidal limestone, with a silty parting capped by a disconformity. The three coarse warm cycles seperated by two silty cold cycles, and then we have a disconformity.

The conodont zones change with extinction during the hiatus, a new zone starts after the hiatus. The stratigraphic units are Dolbee Creek, Lower Haight Creek, Upper Haight Creek, Cedar Fork, and Keokuk.