The Geology of Turner Falls!

Take a trip to Turner Falls OK, just off I35 between DFW. and OKC, and learn about travertine. Most waterfalls - like Niagara Falls – are sites of erosion but Turner Falls is growing as travertine is continuously being deposited.

Support by the AAPG Foundation gratefully acknowledged

Host - Ali Sealander
Editor/Videographer - Zach Clowdus
Writer - R.J. Stern
Artist - Clint Crowley

References
Emig, W. H., 1917. Travertine Deposits of Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geologic Survey, Bull. 29. 76 p.

Donovan, R.N., Ragland, D.A., and Schaefer, D., 1988. Turner Falls Park; Pleistocene Tufa and travertine and Ordovician platform carbonates,
Arbuckle Mountains, southern Oklahoma. Geol. Socs. America Centennial Field Guide – South-Central Section, 153-158

Ragland, D.A., and Donovan, R. N., 1985. The Cool Creek Formation (Ordovician) at Turner Falls in the Arbuckle Mountains of Southern Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geology Notes 45, 132-147.

Srdoc, D., Chafetz, H., and Utech, N. 1989. Radiocarbon dating of Travertine Deposits, Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma. Radiocarbon 31, 619-626.

Credits

Fault Map
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Turner Falls Image
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