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Goodland Limestone
Stratigraphic range: Cretaceous
TypeFormation
UnderliesKiamichi Formation
OverliesTrinity Group
Location
RegionArkansas, Texas
CountryUnited States
Type section
Named forGoodland, Choctaw County, Oklahoma
Named byRobert Thomas Hill[1]

The Goodland Limestone or Goodland Formation is a geologic formation in Arkansas[2] and Texas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Hill, R.T. (1891). "The Comanche series of the Texas-Arkansas region". Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 2: 504, 514–515, 516, 522.
  2. ^ McFarland, John David (2004) [1998]. "Stratigraphic summary of Arkansas" (PDF). Arkansas Geological Commission Information Circular. 36: 27.
  3. ^ Omaña, L., Alencaster, G., Buitrón, B.E., (2016). "Mid-early late Albian foraminiferal assemblage from the El Abra Formation in the El Madroño locality, eastern Valles–San Luis Potosí Platform, Mexico: Paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographical significance" (PDF). Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana. 68: 477–492.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)