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  • Usage in publication:
    • Fort Pillow Sand*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sand
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Upper Mississippi embayment
Publication:

Moore, G.K., and Brown, D.L., 1969, Stratigraphy of the Fort Pillow test well, Lauderdale County, Tennessee: Tennessee Division of Geology Report of Investigations, no. 26, 1 sheet.


Summary:

Fort Pillow Sand, middle formation of Wilcox Group, named in Lauderdale Co., west-central TN for old Civil War fort. Sand is a gray to orange, coarse-grained aquifer. Thickness 50 m. Overlies Old Breastworks Formation; underlies Flour Island Formation (both new). Age is early Eocene.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Fort Pillow Sand*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Upper Mississippi embayment
Publication:

Parks, W.S., and Lounsbury, R.W., 1977, Summary of some current and possible future environmental problems related to geology and hydrology at Memphis, Tennessee: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations, WRI-4-76, 39 p.


Summary:

Age is Paleocene and early Eocene age at Memphis, Mississippi embayment, western Tennessee (table 1). Reasons for this age assignment not provided. [Fort Pillow considered early Eocene by Moore (1969).]

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Fort Pillow Sand*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Upper Mississippi embayment
Publication:

Frederiksen, N.O., Bybell, L.M., Christopher, R.A., Crone, A.J., Edwards, L.E., Gibson, T.G., Hazel, J.E., Repetski, J.E., Russ, D.P., Smith, C.C., and Ward, L.W., 1982, Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of lower Paleozoic, Upper Cretaceous, and lower Tertiary rocks in U.S. Geological Survey New Madrid test wells, southeastern Missouri: Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology, v. 17, no. 2, p. 23-45.


Summary:

Unit is geographically extended from western TN into southeastern MO. Age changed from Paleocene and early Eocene to late Paleocene.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Fort Pillow Sand*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Upper Mississippi embayment
Publication:

Hosman, R.L., 1988, Geohydrologic framework of the Gulf Coastal Plain: U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Investigations Atlas, HA-695, 2 sheets, scale 1:2,500,000


Summary:

Fort Pillow Sand, along with Flour Island and Old Breastworks Formations, all of Wilcox Group, are extended into northeastern AR. Wilcox Group overlies Porters Creek Clay of Midway Group; underlies Memphis Sand of Claiborne Group.

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


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