- Usage in publication:
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- Delight sand*
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sand
- Clay
- Asphalt
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Ouachita folded belt
Summary:
Delight sand of Trinity group. Proposed for sand lying between the Pike gravel and the Dierks limestone in Sevier, Howard, and Pike Counties, [southwestern Arkansas]. Sand is gray, generally fine-grained and cross-bedded, thick-bedded, and interbedded with some clay and locally impregnated with asphalt. Attains thickness of at least 200 feet in area between Delight and Pike and thins westward. Age is Early Cretaceous (Comanche Series).
Type locality: asphalt quarry just west of Wolf Creek and about 3.75 mi northwest of Delight, Pike Co., southwestern AR
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1080-1081).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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