VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP # 3

Economic Geology and Mineralogy of Central Arkansas

Lafayette Geological Society Field Trip
March 24 - 26, 2000


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Our virtual fieldtrip is based upon Barry Wawak's guidebook,"Economic Geology and Mineralogy of Central Arkansas:
Lafayette Geological Society Field Trip, March 24 - 26, 2000".


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Group Photo at Tripoli Mine. (left to right)
Front Row - John Hamburn, Myra Hamburn, Michael Hines, Heather Finley, Jana DaSilva
Back Row - Francis Broussard, Tony Johnson, Bill Terrell, Ron Cormier, Karen Broussard, Liv Bystoel, Barry Wawak, Graham Hill, Bill Finley, visitor, Ted Gard, Will Saul


The route of the field trip runs from Benton to Mt. Ida (Day One),
then Hot Springs to Malvern (Day Two).

Day One Highlights:
  1. Former Bauxite Mine --near Bauxite, Arkansas
  2. Old Coleman Crystal Mine, Part I --Jessieville, Arkansas--Crystal Mountain Sandstone
  3. Old Coleman Crystal Mine, Part II --Crystal Mountain Sandstone
Day Two Highlights:
  1. Magnet Cove, Part I--Field at center of igneous intrusion
  2. Magnet Cove, Part II--Matlock farm
  3. Magnet Cove- former rutile mine
  4. Malvern Minerals Tripoli Mine-- complete section through the Devonian-Mississippian Novaculite

Arkansas: Structural/Stratigraphic Maps & Stratigraphic Columns
  1. Arkansas Mineral Occurrence Map
  2. The Ouachita Orogenic Belt (Thomas and Viele, 1989), Fieldtrip Guidebook, p. 7.
  3. The Ouachita Mountains (Miser, 1959), Fieldtrip Guidebook, p. 9.
  4. Paleozoic Units, Ouachita Mts., Fieldtrip Guidebook, p. 14.
  5. Stratigraphic Column with Womble Shale and Ark. Novaculite, Fieldtrip Guidebook, p. 94-1.


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The Ouachita Orogenic Belt (Thomas and Viele, 1989)

Abbreviation code: AM=Arbuckle Mountains, Atf=Appalachian tectonic front, BBu=Broken Bow uplift, Bu=Benton uplift, CBp=Central Basin platform, Db=Delaware basin, DRu=Devil's River uplift, Tp=Texarkana platform, Su=Sabine uplift, WM=Wichita mountains.


Special thanks go to
FRANCIS BROUSSARD and WILL SAUL
for the use of their excellent fieldtrip photographs.


Lafayette Geological Society thanks
CORE PETROPHYSICS for printing the Fieldtrip Guide Book
STONE ENERGY for providing beverages and the use of their parking lot.

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