- Photo
- Lidar Scan
- ERA: Paleozoic
- Period: Ordovician (wiki, alpha)
- Epoch: Middle
- Age: 470-458 million years ago
- Formation: Plattin
- Lithology: Limestone
- Original location: 35.8633,-91.3241
- Donor organization: Bradley Contracting
- Donor contact: Jason Angel
- Financial support:
- Mac and Karen McGilvery
- MacNote: Plattin Limestone. Sample selected to illustrate typical intertidal carbonate deposits. Note cm-scale, interbedded micrite mud layers and mm-scale, laminated algal bands. Mud cracks are preserved on bedding planes recording low tide, exposure surfaces. Sample exhibits en echelon, calcite filled fractures.
