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  • Usage in publication:
    • Blounts Creek member
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Clay
    • Sand
    • Gravel
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Fisk, H.N., 1940, Geology of Avoyelles and Rapides Parishes: Louisiana Department of Conservation and Geology Bulletin, no. 18, 240 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

Pg. 118 (fig. 26), 168-170, 174, geol. map. Blounts Creek member, uppermost member of Fleming formation of Grand Gulf group. Consists of group of silty clays and sands; some beds as much as 10 feet thick. Thickness about 500 feet. Overlies Castor Creek member (new); underlies Quaternary deposits. Age is Miocene.
Well exposed south of Hinestone in northern slopes of Blount Creek, Rapides Parish, central LA.

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