Mississippian

1. of or relating to the state of Mississippi or the Mississippi River

2. (in North America) of, denoting, or formed in the lower of two subdivisions of the Carboniferous period (see also Pennsylvanian (sense 2)), which lasted for 30 million years

3. the. the Mississippian period or rock system equivalent to the lower Carboniferous of Europe

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Mississippian

[¦mis·ə¦sip·ē·ən]

(geology)

The fifth period of the Paleozoic Era beginning about 350 million years ago and ending about 320 million years ago. The Mississippian System (referring to rocks) or Period (referring to the time during which these rocks were deposited) is employed in North America as the lower (or older) subdivision of the Carboniferous, as used in Europe and on other continents.

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SandRidge Mississippian Trust II's outstanding trust units aggregate 49.725m.

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As the Mississippian ceremonial center faded, a new Lamar culture rose in the surrounding areas, blending Mississippian and Woodland elements.

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Regional variability among Woodland period mound builders is not adequately addressed, and uncritical reliance on the highly problematic accounts of the sixteenth-century expedition of Hernando de Soto as sources of ethnographic information on Mississippian cultures is also troublesome.

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The company's operations are currently focussed on oilfields in the Mississippian Lime play in Oklahoma and the Anadarko Basin in Texas and Oklahoma.

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This well is also targeting the the Mississippian Formations with an expected TD of 4,650 feet.

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