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Geologic Unit: Camden
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Camden series
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Arkla basin
Publication:

Hill, R.T., 1888, The Neozoic geology of southwestern Arkansas, IN Arkansas Geological Survey Annual Report, 1887-1892: Arkansas Geological Survey Annual Report, 1887-1892, v. 2, p. 1-260.


Summary:

Pg. 49-65, 177, 188. Camden series. Shallow-water, semi-estuarine marine deposits of stratified, micaceous, non-indurated, alternating laminae of sands and clay shales, sandy shales, bituminous shales, lignitic shales, thin sandstones, etc. Thickness 100 to 700 feet. Includes Arkadelphia shales, Bingen sands, and Cleveland County red lands. Included in Eocene. Underlies Quaternary. Overlies Cretaceous rocks.
[Named from exposures in bluffs at Camden, Ouachita Co., southern AR.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 323).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Camden series
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
Publication:

Hill, R.T., 1902, The Beaumont oil field, with notes on other oil fields of the Texas region: Franklin Institute Journal, v. 154, no. 2, p. 143-156.


Summary:

Pg. 148-156, 264-266. Camden series includes all rocks from base of Eocene to Nacogdoches oil formation. Kennedy noted stratigraphic unconformities between Camden series and overlying Angelina series. [Included Midway formation, Wilcox group, Claiborne group, and Jackson formation.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 323).


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  • Usage in publication:
    • Camden series†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
Publication:

Wilmarth, M.G., 1930, [Selected Geologic Names Committee remarks (ca. 1900-1933) on Tertiary deposits of the Gulf Coastal Plain], IN Wilmarth, M.G., 1938, Lexicon of geologic names of the United States (including Alaska): U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 896, pts. 1-2, 2396 p.


Summary:

Upper Cretaceous and Eocene Camden series of Arkansas, Louisiana, southeastern Oklahoma, and eastern Texas, abandoned.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 323).


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