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Viséan
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Viséan [vi′sā·ən]
(geology)
A European stage of lower Carboniferous geologic time forming the lowermost Upper Mississippian, above Tournaisian and below lower Namurian.


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The limestone is part of the Galway-Roscommon Shelf, a Visean succession that consists almost entirely of limestones of shallow-water shelf facies extending from east County Clare and County Galway in the south, to counties Mayo and Roscommon in the north (Sevastopulo and Wyse Jackson, 2001).
Mounds with a packstone fabric also have been reported from the Fort Payne Formation of Kentucky (Ausich and Meyer, 1990) and Visean strata of Ireland and England (Lees and Miller, 1995).
The Carboniferous Visean RKF sandstone tested 2,675 barrels of 53.
 
 
 
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