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The problem of the genesis of the stratabound barite deposits in the lower part of the Stanley Shale (Late Mississippian) of Arkansas is investigated. Attention is given to the presence of barite bearing large and small slump structures, turbidites and breccias; disrupted bedded barite, later deposited as fine lenses in turbidites, are especially indicative in proving an early diagenetic age of formation.
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Zimmermann, R.A. (1982). Turbidite Barite in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas, U.S.A.. In: Amstutz, G.C., et al. Ore Genesis. Special Publication of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68344-2_7
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