Garber Sandstone

Garber Sandstone
Stratigraphic range: Permian
TypeFormation
Unit ofWichita Formation
UnderliesHennessey Formation
OverliesChase Group
Thickness100 to 400 ft
Lithology
PrimarySandstone
Otherconglomerate, shale, siltstone, chert
Location
RegionOklahoma
CountryUnited States

The Garber Sandstone is a geologic formation from the Permian Period in Oklahoma. Radiometric dates yielded an absolute age of 281 Ma, which makes it early Kungurian, according to the current geological time scale. Numerous fossils have been found in it, including various stegocephalians, namely the temnospondyls Trimerorhachis and Tersomius, the lepospondyls Brachydectes and Diplocaulus, the embolomere Archeria, the diadectomorph Diadectes, and the amniotes Captorhinus, Labidosaurikos, Ophiacodon, Dimetrodon and Araeoscelis. It serves as an important aquifer, the Garber-Wellington Aquifer, in Logan, Oklahoma, and Cleveland counties of central Oklahoma.

The upper portion of the Garber is associated with extensive baryte mineralization associated with desert rose occurrences in the outcrop area.

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References

  1. 1 2 Garber Sandstone, USGS: Mineral Resources > Online Spatial Data
  2. ↑ Thomas, William A.; Gehrels, George E.; Sundell, Kurt E.; Romero, Mariah C. (2021). "Detrital-zircon analyses, provenance, and late Paleozoic sediment dispersal in the context of tectonic evolution of the Ouachita orogen". Geosphere. 17 (4): 1214–1247. doi:10.1130/GES02288.1. ISSN 1553-040X.
  3. ↑ Lucas, Spencer G. (January 2018). "Permian tetrapod biochronology, correlation and evolutionary events". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 450 (1): 405–444. doi:10.1144/SP450.12. ISSN 0305-8719.
  4. ↑ The Garber-Wellington Aquifer, Association of Central Oklahoma Governments
  5. ↑ Review of the General Geology and Solid-Phase Geochemical Studies in the Vicinity of the Central Oklahoma Aquifer, US Geological Survey Circular 1019, 1986, p. 6