5

5

8

8

75

25

25 32

35 50

65

45 25

15

8

60

5

15

14

40

38

33

30

10

10

40

35

75

15

12

60

35

32

15

17

75

20

32

20

55

50

10

15

10

20

48

40

50 30

50 88

70

30

60

25

30

22

45

45

42

44

81

25 65

25

45

45

45

50

40

45

40

65

75

75

26

55

11

33

20 43 65

30

45

55 20

40

30

65

35

25

15

20

30 56

10

23

27

38

23

35

58

25

7

50

24

35

25

52

72

15

15

45

15

17

16

20

42

30

30

20

70

68

Ps

vs

vs

vc

vc

vc

vc

vc

vc

vc

vc

vc

MDsw

DSOh

Osv

Osv

Osv

Obm

Obm

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

SOhl

Dhu

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

DSoh

DSOh

DSOh

MDsw

MDsw MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw Qac

Qac

Os

Ov

Ov

Ov

Os

Os

Os

Qac

Qac

Osv

Obm

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

Mc

Mc

Mc

Mc

Mc

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

aw

MDsw Ms

MDsw

MDsw

Ms

Mc

Mc

Mc

Mc

Mc

Mc

Mc

Mc

Mc

Mc

d

d

d

d

d d

Ms

Ms

Ms

vs

vs

vs

vs

vs

vs

Qac

Qac

Qac

Qac

Qac

Ow

Osv

Qac

Osv

Qac

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Mc

Mc

MDsw

DSOh

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Owk

Obm

Ooj

Ooj

Ooj

Obm

Obm

Obm

Obm

Obm

Obm

Ooj

Ooj

Ooj

Owk

Ooj

Obm

Obm

Obm

Obm

Obm

Obm

Osv

Osv Obm

DSOh

DSOh

METERS

B'

Ooj

MDsw

AU AU

WU

WU

WU

WU

AU AU

WU

WU

WU

WU

500

400

300

200

100

0

-100

-200

-300

-400

-500

-600

-700

-800

-900

-1,000

-1,100

-1,200

-1,300

-1,400

-1,500

-1,600

-1,700

B

FEET

Mc Mc Mc

Mc

Mc

Mc

Mc

Mc

Mc

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

DSoh

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Obm

Obm

Obm

Obm

Obm

Obm

Ooj

Ooj

Ooj

Ooj

Ooj

Ooj

Owk

Owk

Owk

Owk

Owk

Owk

Owk

A

T

REAGAN FAULT

Lake of the 

API no. 68 Arbuckles

TD 3,750’

(projected)

API no. 103

TD 2,495’

API no. 20579

TD 5,803’

API no. 20337

TD 2,770’

API no. 4

TD 1,978’

API no. 49 + 49.1

BEND IN

SECTION

TD 5,587’

BEND IN

SECTION

BEND IN

SECTION

SOUTH SULPHUR FAULT

SULPHUR FAULT

TISHOMINGO

ANTICLINE MILL CREEK SYNCLINE FAULT BLOCK MILL CREEK FAULT ZONE BELTON ANTICLINE FAULT BLOCK SULPHUR SYNCLINE HUNTON ANTICLINE

(SW Flank)

BEND IN

SECTION

Ms

Ms

Ms

Ms

d

d

d d?

d

vc

vc vc

-4,500

-5,000

-5,500

1,500

-4,000

-3,000

-2,000

-1,000

1,000

0

-3,500

500

-500

-1,500

-2,500

BEND IN

SECTION

A A'

MDsw

DSOh

Obm

Obm

Obm Obm

Obm

Ooj

Ooj Ooj

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

Osv

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

DSOh

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

MDsw

Owk

Owk

Owk

Mc

Mc

AU Mc

Ms

Ms

BEND IN

SECTION

DOUGHERTY

ANTICLINE

API no. 20170

TD 5,010’

API no. 33

TD 7,334’

(projected)

BEND IN

SECTION

API no. 80

TD 3,510’ REAGAN FAULT

BEND IN

SECTION

API no. 595

TD 2,505’ Lake of the Arbuckles

A T

200

100

0

-100

-200

-300

-400

-500

-600

-700

-800

-900

-1,000

-1,100

-1,200

-1,300

-1,400

500

400

300

FEET METERS

-4,500

1,500

-4,000

-3,000

-2,000

-1,000

1,000

0

-3,500

500

-500

-1,500

-2,500

vc

Location of Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Murray County, Oklahoma, including outline of map area (thick green line). Also

shown as figure 1 in pamphlet.

Figure 6. Map showing major structural features and related Pennsylvanian-age angular unconformities in and nearby Chickasaw National Recreation Area. 

Major faults (thick white lines); major folds and folded fault blocks (white italic labels); major Pennsylvanian-age angular unconformities (thin yellow lines); WU, 

Wichita unconformity; AU, Arbuckle unconformity; lines of cross sections denoted as thin red lines. Base map is 2008 National Agricultural Imagery Program 

(NAIP) photography on shaded relief derived from 10-m digital elevation data. Also shown as figure 6 in pamphlet.

Old abandoned quarry exposing Hunton Group (DSOh) and crest of Tishomingo anticline in southeastern part of 

map area (looking east-southeast).

Circular-shaped hill east of map area, in eastern part of the Hunton 

anticline (figs. 2 and 3 in pamphlet). Similar hills occur in the 

east-central part of the map area and are interpreted to be erosional 

remnants of paleo-karst sinkholes (see pamphlet for discussion).

Steeply dipping shale of Woodford Shale (MDsw) exposed along southern shoreline of 

Lake of the Arbuckles, directly south of Reagan fault (looking south from boat).

Lake of the Arbuckles dam in southern part of map area (looking south from shoreline).

Limestone conglomerate facies of Vanoss Formation ( vc) exposed along Lake of the 

Arbuckles shoreline in southern part of map area.

Nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)

34°30'00"

34°27'30"

34°25'00"

97°02'30" 97°00'00" 96°57'30"

34°30'00"

34°27'30"

34°25'00"

97°02'30" 97°00'00" 96°57'30"

0 2 1 3 4 Miles

0 1 2 3 4 KILOMETERS

REAGAN

REAGAN

FAULT

SOUTH SULPHUR FAULT

MILL

CREEK FAULT

ZONE

Vanoss Formation

Deese

Group

Dougherty

Anticline

Tishomingo

Anticline

Belton Anticline (fault block)

Sulphur Syncline (mostly buried)

SULPHUR FAULT (buried)

SW Flank—Hunton Anticline

(buried)

Mill Creek Syncline (fault block)

WU

AU

AU

A

A'

B

B'

WU

AU

AU

AU

FAULT

Lake

of the Arbuckles

Lacy

Lake

7

7

177

177

Sulphur

CHICKASAW

TURNPIKE

0

0

0.5

0.5

1 KILOMETER

1 MILE

Washita River

Rock

Creek

Guy Sandy

Creek

Rock

Creek Veterans

Lake

Tr av erti ne

Creek

Wilson Creek

Mill Creek

Watershed

Little Niagara

Lowrance

Lake Mill Creek

Watershed

14 Reservoir

Dry

Branch

Buckhorn

Creek

Mill Creek Watershed

16 Reservoir

Lake of the 

Arbuckles

Dougherty

MURRAY COUNTY

CARTER COUNTY

JOHNSTON COUNTY

MURRAY COUNTY

37°30’

97°00’

Davis Sulphur

Rock Creek

Site 8 Reservoir

Rock Creek

Site 9 Reservoir

Elks Lodge

Lake

CHICKASAW

NATIONAL

RECREATION AREA RECREATION AREA

Vendome 

Well

7

110

110

7

177

177 EXPLANATION

Populated area

Chickasaw National

Recreation Area

Mapped area

Perennial stream

Intermittent stream

County line

Major road 177

OKLAHOMA

MAP LOCATION

Arbuckle

Mountains

Old abandoned quarry exposing Hunton Group (DSOh) and crest of Tishomingo anticline in southeastern part of 

map area (looking east-southeast).

Old abandoned quarry exposing Hunton Group (DSOh) and crest of Tishomingo anticline in southeastern part of

Circular-shaped hill east of map area, in eastern part of the Hunton 

Steeply dipping shale of Woodford Shale (MDsw) exposed along southern shoreline of 

Lake of the Arbuckles dam in southern part of map area (looking south from shoreline).

Limestone conglomerate facies of Vanoss Formation ( vc) exposed along Lake of the

Boat towing electromagnetic (EM) equipment during EM survey of the 

Lake of the Arbuckles.

Nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)

API Number Latitude Longitude

4 35099000040000 34.47721 -96.95467

33 35099000330000 34.42450 -97.07482

49 35099000490000 34.43054 -96.98911

49.1* 35099000490001 34.43054 -96.98911

68 35099000680000 34.39805 -97.02433

80 35099000800000 34.43974 -97.05405

103 35099001030000 34.41780 -97.00183

595 35099005950000 34.45553 -97.04121

20170 35099201700000 34.43042 -97.06308

20337 35099203370000 34.45806 -96.95865

20579 35099205790000 34.43763 -96.98206

Abbreviated

API no.

Total Depth

TD (ft)

5,803

2,770

5,010

2,505

2,495

3,510

3,750

5,587

4,329

7,334

1,978

Table 2. Table showing American Petroleum Information (API) number, total depth, 

and latitude and longitude for wells shown on the geologic map and in the cross 

sections. The drill hole data for these wells were taken from Puckett and others (2009) 

and used to constrain subsurface relations depicted in cross sections A–A' and B–B'.

* Well deepened from Abbreviated API no. 49. 

CORRELATION OF MAP UNITS

PENNSYLVANIAN

MISSISSIPPIAN

DEVONIAN

SILURIAN

ORDOVICIAN

PERMIAN

QUATERNARY

Pontotoc

Group

Arbuckle

Group

(upper part)

Simpson Group

Hunton

Group

Sylvan Shale and Viola Group

Qac

Ps

aw

Ms

Mc

MDsw

Obm

Ooj

Ow Owk

DSOh

Dhu

Os

SOhl

Osv

Ov

af

vs vc

d

LIST OF MAP UNITS

[Note: Due to the addition of a shaded relief base, colors on the List of Map Units and the Correlation of Map 

Units may not exactly match unit colors on the map. More detailed descriptions of these units are available in the 

accompanying pamphlet]

QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHY

Artificial fill (Quaternary)

Alluvium and colluvium, undifferentiated (Quaternary)

PALEOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY

Pontotoc Group (Lower Permian and Upper Pennsylvanian)

Stratford Formation (Lower Permian)

Vanoss Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian, Virgilian)

Upper shale facies

Lower limestone conglomerate facies

Deese Group, undifferentiated (Middle Pennsylvanian, Middle Desmoinesian)

Atoka and Wapanucka Formations, undifferentiated (Middle to Lower Pennsylvanian)

Atoka Formation (Middle Pennsylvanian, Atokan)

Wapanucka (Middle to Lower Pennsylvanian, Atokan to Morrowan)

Springer Formation (Lower Pennsylvanian to Upper Mississippian, Morrowan to 

Chesterian)

Caney Shale (Upper to Middle Mississippian, Chesterian to Meramecian)

Sycamore Limestone, Welden Limestone, and Woodford Shale, undifferentiated 

(Mississippian to Devonian)

Sycamore Limestone (Middle to Lower Mississippian, Meramecian to 

Kinderhookian)

Welden Limestone (Lower Mississippian)

Woodford Shale (Lower Mississippian, Kinderhookian to Upper Devonian)

Hunton Group, undifferentiated (Lower Devonian to Upper Ordovician, Cincinnatian)

Upper part of Hunton Group, undifferentiated (Lower Devonian)

Bois d’Arc Formation

Haragan Formation

Lower part of Hunton Group, undifferentiated (Silurian to Upper Ordovician)

Henryhouse Formation (Silurian)

Clarita Formation (Silurian)

Cochrane Formation (Silurian)

Keel Formation (Upper Ordovician, Cincinnatian)

Sylvan Shale and Viola Group, undifferentiated (Upper Ordovician, Cincinnatian)

Sylvan Shale

Viola Group

Simpson Group (Middle Ordovician)

Bromide, Tulip Creek, and McLish Formations, undifferentiated

Bromide Formation

Tulip Creek Formation

McLish Formation

Oil Creek and Joins Formations, undifferentiated

Oil Creek Formation

Joins Formation

Arbuckle Group (Lower Ordovician to Upper Cambrian)

West Spring Creek and Kindblade Formations, undifferentiated (Lower 

Ordovician)

West Spring Creek Formation

Kindblade Formation

DSOh

Dhu

Ms

MDsw

Mc

Obm

Ooj

Os

Osv

Ov

Ow

Owk

aw

d

Ps

vc

vs

Qac

SOhl

af

97°02’30” 97°00’00”

34°30’00”

34°27’30”

34°25’00”

97°02’30” 97°00’00” 96°57’30”

34°25’00”

34°27’30”

34°30’00”

96°57’30”

EXPLANATION

Contact—Dashed where inferred. In cross sections and structure map, contacts that 

are also major unconformities are labeled; WU, Wichita unconformity; AU, 

Arbuckle unconformity (see Regional Structural Framework in pamphlet for 

discussion)

Internal map-unit boundary—Separates locally subdivided map units from a more 

commonly mapped, undifferentiated unit that comprises the subdivided map 

units. Boundary is a cartographic feature that marks the location where the 

mapping of the subdivided map units ceased, mostly due to poor exposure

Fault—Dashed where inferred

Normal fault—Dashed where inferred, dotted where concealed; bar and ball on 

downthrown block. In cross sections, arrows show relative direction of 

displacement

Thrust fault—Dashed where inferred; sawteeth on upthrown block. In cross sections, 

arrows show relative direction of displacement

Oblique-slip fault—Dashed where inferred; open sawteeth on up-thrown block 

(reverse/thrust offset). Arrows show direction of apparent lateral displacment 

(right-lateral offset). In cross sections, arrows show relative direction of 

displacement in plane of cross section. T indicates movement towards observer 

(perpendicular to plane of cross section), A indicates movement away from 

observer

Anticline—Showing trace of axial surface, and dip direction of limbs

Syncline—Showing trace of axial surface, and dip direction of limbs; dotted where 

concealed

Strike and dip of bedding

Inclined

Overturned

Horizontal

Area of collapsed and mega-brecciated strata—Hachures point towards ancient 

down-dropped core. Preserved and expressed geomorphically as a small hill with 

a circular perimeter (see pamphlet for discussion)

Reservoir, lake, pond, or river

Drill hole—Used to constrain cross sections. Abbreviated American Petroleum 

Information number (API ) is shown on map and cross sections with total depth 

of well (TD) from surface elevation

Chickasaw National Recreation Area boundary

50

65

API 103

TD 2,495

97°15’00” 97°07’30” 97°00’00” 96°52’30” 96°45’00”

34°30’00”

34°37’30”

34°22’30”

34°15’00”

TURNER FALLS

SPRINGER GENE AUTRY NEBO TROY

DOUGHERTY SULPHUR MILL CREEK

SOUTH

Index map showing map area in yellow, Chickasaw National Recreation 

Area in green, Lake of the Arbuckles in blue, and the U.S. Geological 

Survey 7.5-minute quadrangles. 

JOY DAVIS SULPHUR

NORTH

ROFF SOUTH

SCALE 1: 24 000

1 1/ 2 0 1 MILE

1000 1000 0 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 FEET

1 0 .5 1 KILOMETER

Original geologic compilation by William E. Ham, Myron E. McKinley, and others, 1954, 

Oklahoma Geological Survey. Revised by Johnson, 1990, Oklahoma Geological Survey

Field work done in 2009 and 2010 by Charles D. Blome, David J. Lidke, and Ronald R. Wahl

D. Paco Van Sistine prepared the digital compilation of the geologic map and the GIS database

Digital topographic base prepared by Theodore R. Brandt

Edit and cartographic layout by L.J. Binder

Denver Science Publishing Network

OKLAHOMA

MAP LOCATION APPROXIMATE MEAN

DECLINATION, 2010 TRUE NORTH

MAGNETIC NORTH

Base from 1:24,000 U.S. Geological Survey Davis, OK, 1965, rev. 1993; Sulphur North, 4°

OK, 1967, rev. 1993; Dougherty, OK, 1965, rev. 1978; and Sulphur South, OK, 1963, rev. 

1978

Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator, zone 14

North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83)

Datum and Geodetic Reference System 80 (GRS 80) spheriod

Shaded relief from U.S. Geological Survey National Elevation Dataset

(NED, http://nationalmap.gov/elevation.html)

Chickasaw National Recreation Area boundary from the National Park Service, 2012

There may be private inholdings within the boundaries of National or State reservations shown on this map

Not all boundaries may have been placed on the map owing to limitations of scale and 

complexity of land ownership and status

Suggested citation:

Blome, C.D., Lidke, D.J., Wahl, R.R., and Golab, J.A., 2013, Geological map of Chickasaw 

National Recreation Area, Murray County, Oklahoma: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific 

Investigations Map 3258, 28 p., 1 sheet, 1:24,000, http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3258.

Geologic Map of Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Murray County, Oklahoma

By

Charles D. Blome, David J. Lidke, Ronald R. Wahl, and James A. Golab

2013

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2.54 centimeter (cm)

25.4 millimeter (mm)

0.3048 meter (m)

1.609 kilometer (km)

CONVERSION FACTORS

Multiply By To obtain

inch (in.)

inch (in.)

foot (ft)

mile (mi)

CONTOUR INTERVAL 10 FEET

NATIONAL GEODETIC VERTICAL DATUM OF 1929

Scientific Investigations Map 3258

Pamphlet accompanies Map

Prepared in cooperation with the

National Park Service

Altitude, as used in this report, refers to distance above the vertical datum.

B

B'

A

A'

SULPHUR

SYNCLINE 

API 33

TD 7,334

API 68

TD 3,750

API 20170

TD 5,010

API 80

TD 3,510

API 595

TD 2,505

API 103

TD 2,495

API 49, 49.1

TD 5,587 

API 20579

TD 5,803

API 20337

TD 2,770

API 4

TD 1,978

SOUTH

SULPHUR

FAULT

SULPHUR FAULT

REAGAN

FAULT

MILL

CREEK FAULT

ZONE

REAGAN

FAULT

MILL CREEK

FAULT

ZONE

TISHOMINGO

ANTICLINE

DOUGHERTY

ANTICLINE

CHICKASAW NATIONAL

RECREATION AREA

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Geological Survey