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Arbuckle orogeny

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Arbuckle orogeny, period of high-angle block faulting, some thrusting and tilting of strata, and deposition of coarse clastic sediments in adjacent basins in the Wichita-Arbuckle System of western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle. The faulting began in the Middle Pennsylvanian, culminated in the Late Pennsylvanian, and continued locally into the Permian (the Pennsylvanian began 318 million years ago and ended 299 million years ago, at which time the Permian Period began).

Rocks deformed by the Ouachita orogeny appear to override subsurface rocks deformed by the Arbuckle orogeny. Hence the Ouachita orogeny may be somewhat later in time.

This article was most recently revised and updated by John P. Rafferty.