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  • Usage in publication:
    • Ecor Rouge Sand
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sand
    • Gravel
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Mid-Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Isphording, W.C., 1977, Petrology and stratigraphy of the Alabama Miocene: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 27, p. 304-313.


Summary:

Ecor Rouge Sand named on Mobile Bay, southwestern AL. Unit is composed of white and reddish-brown cross-bedded, fluvial marine clastics: sand, gravelly sand, and quartzite gravel. Thickness is 12 m. Overlies Mobile Clay and underlies Citronelle Formation. Age is late Miocene.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Ecor Rouge Sand
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Mid-Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Isphording, W.C., and Flowers, G.C., 1983, Differentiation of unfossiliferous clastic sediments; solutions from the southern portion of the Alabama-Mississippi coastal plain: Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology, v. 17, no. 3, p. 59-83.


Summary:

Type section at Ecor Rouge is highest point of land on combined Atlantic-Gulf Coasts. Reveals thin laminated clays, ironstones, cross-bedded sands, and gravelly sands. Unit is 12 m thick at type section and 10.5 m thick at exposure on Wolf Ridge Road. Age is late Miocene.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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