- Usage in publication:
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- Duck Lake formation
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Gulf Coast basin
Summary:
Pg. 782-783. Duck Lake formation. Name applied to an uncorrelated interval between base of Lissie and top of Citronelle equivalent that occurs in type well log between 880 feet and 1,470 feet. Illustrated as being composed of a topstratum-substratum fluvial-deltaic sequence. Age is Pleistocene.
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 880 to 1,470 ft, Hunt Oil Company State Goodrich 1392 No. 1 well, in sec. 2, T. 15 S., R. 11 E., Duck Lake area, St. Martin Parish, southeastern LA; API no. 37447. Electric well-log.
[Doering's Duck Lake Formation is correlative with the Bentley Formation.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1171); supplemental information from LA State Geol. Survey (written commun., Mar. 2007).
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