Usage:
Saline Formation of Wilcox Group (AR*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: road cut immediately north of Benton pumping station, several hundred ft east of northwest corner SW/4 SE/4 sec. 25, T. 2 S., R. 15 W., Saline Co., central AR. Named from Saline River (Gordon and others, 1958).
AAPG geologic province:
Ouachita folded belt*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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