Compton Limestone

{{Short description|Geologic formation in Missouri, US}}

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| name = Compton Limestone

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| type = Formation

| age = Mississippian

| period = Mississippian

| prilithology = Limestone

| otherlithology = Shale

| namedfor = Compton, Webster County, Missouri

| namedby = Raymond Cecil Moore{{cite journal|last1=Moore|first1=R.C.|title=Early Mississippian formations in Missouri|journal=Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines |series=2nd Series|date=1928|volume=21|pages=108–109, 111, 118–122, 131, 158}}

| region = Missouri (southwest): Springfield Plateau section of the Ozarks

| country = United States

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| underlies = Northview Formation

| overlies = Cotter Formation, Chattanooga Shale

| thickness = 5 to 50 ft[http://www.dnr.mo.gov/env/wrc/groundwater/education/provinces/springfieldplatprovince.htm Springfield Plateau Groundwater Province, Missouri Department of Natural Resources]

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The Compton Limestone is a geologic formation in southwest Missouri. It preserves brachiopod and echinoderm fossils of the Mississippian subperiod.The Stratigraphic Succession in Missouri, Missouri Geological Survey, Vol. XL 2nd series, 1961, pp 56-57 The Compton rests unconformably on the Cotter Dolomite of Ordovician age. The Compton was named for the community of Compton, Missouri, as the type sections were described for outcrops along the James River and its tributary the Compton Branch.[https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/Units/Compton_15038.html Geologic Unit: Compton, type locality Geolex, USGS]