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  • Usage in publication:
    • Gulfport Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sand
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Mid-Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Otvos, E.G., Jr., 1972, Pre-Sangamon beach ridges along the northeastern Gulf Coast; fact or fiction?: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 22, p. 223-228.


Summary:

Gulfport Formation, here named in Harrison Co., southeastern MS, described as barrier ridge composed of white, medium- to fine-grained sand, yellow-orange near surface. Thickness ranges form 5.0 to 9.5 m. Overlies Biloxi Formation. Age is late Pleistocene.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Gulfport Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Mid-Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Otvos, E.G., 1991, Northeastern Gulf Coast Quaternary, IN DuBar, J.R., and others, Quaternary geology of the Gulf of Mexico coastal plain, Chapter 19, OF Morrison, R.B., ed., Quaternary nonglacial geology; conterminous United States: Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, The Decade of North American Geology (DNAG), v. K-2, p. 588-594.


Summary:

Gulfport Formation is limited to a 1- to 3-km-wide discontinuous barrier ridge belt that borders the Gulf mainland shore. Commonly overlies Prairie Formation (alluvium) landward and Biloxi Formation (shelf deposits) near shore. Grades upward from poorly to moderately sorted shoreface sands to foreshore sand and dunes. Fig. 1 shows unit extending from Gulfport, MS, eastward to the mouth of the Ochlockonee River, Franklin Co., FL. Deposited during the Sangamonian.

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


  • Usage in publication:
    • Gulfport Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Mid-Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

GNU Staff, 1995, Draft copy of Otvos, E.G., Mississippi Gulf Coast; geologic evolution, stratigraphy, coastal geomorphology, and Gulf-wide Pleistocene correlations, USGS Bull. XXXX (unpublished): U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series, DDS-6, 1 CD-ROM., release 3


Summary:

Pleistocene Gulfport Formation occurs in MS.

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


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