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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dolet Hills member
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Arkla basin
Publication:

Meagher, D.P., and Aycock, L.C., 1942, Louisiana lignite: Louisiana Department of Conservation and Geology Bulletin, no. 3, 56 p.


Summary:

Pg. 13. Dolet Hills member of Logansport formation. Named in a stratigraphic summary of Louisiana lignite district. Name credited to G. Murray, Jr. Age is Paleocene.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1132).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Dolet Hills member
  • Modifications:
    • Principal reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Arkla basin
Publication:

Murray, G.E., Jr., and Thomas, E.P., 1945, Midway-Wilcox surface stratigraphy of Sabine uplift, Louisiana and Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 29, no. 1, p. 45-70. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pg. 48 (fig. 2), 57. Dolet Hills member of Logansport formation. In type area, consists of about 100 feet of rather massive sand; lithologically cannot be differentiated from other sands in Midway-Wilcox complex. Interfingers along strike with overlying and partially equivalent Cow Bayou member and is gradational from underlying Naborton formation. Age is Paleocene.
Type area: Dolet Hills south of Naborton, especially exposures along road from Grove Hill Church and Cemetery to Naborton and adjacent ravines in sec. 6, T. 11 N., R. 11 W., in sec. 1, T. 11 N., R. 12 W., and sec. 36, T. 12 N., R. 12 W., De Soto Parish, northwestern LA.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1132).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Dolet Hills member
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Arkla basin
Publication:

Murray, G.E., Jr., 1948, Geology of De Soto and Red River Parishes: Louisiana Department of Conservation and Geology Bulletin, no. 25, 312 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

Pg. 105-110. Dolet Hills member of Logansport formation. Overlies Chemard Lake lignite lentil of Naborton formation. Midway group. [Report includes geologic maps.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1132).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Dolet Hills formation
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Arkla basin
Publication:

Andersen, H.V., 1960, Geology of Sabine Parish: Louisiana Department of Conservation and Geology Bulletin, no. 34, 164 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

Pg. 53-54. Dolet Hills formation of Wilcox group. Rank raised to formation in report on Sabine Parish. Term Logansport discontinued. Overlies Naborton formation; underlies Cow Bayou formation. Wilcox group. Subsurface.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1132).


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