Smackover Formation

Smackover Formation
Stratigraphic range: Oxfordian
Wells reporting Smackover Formation tops are indicated by a black point, and extend from Texas to Florida. Formation top depths measured in 6,764 wells range from 1,394 to 23,554 feet.
TypeFormation
UnderliesBuckner Formation
OverliesNorphlet Formation
Location
RegionArkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida
CountryUnited States

The Smackover Formation is a geologic formation that extends under parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. It preserves fossils dating back to the Jurassic period. The formation is a relic of an ancient sea that left an extensive, porous, and permeable limestone geologic unit.

The Smackover Formation consists of oolitic limestones and silty limestones.

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