- Usage in publication:
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- Hollis Dolomite Bed
- Modifications:
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- First used
- Dominant lithology:
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- Dolomite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Palo Duro basin
Summary:
First published use as a bed in the Dog Creek Shale of El Reno Group. Was used earlier in a thesis by this author in 1967. Named for exposures south of town of Hollis in Harmon Co. Type section measured in bluff in SE1/4 SW1/4 NE1/4 sec 11, T1N, R26W to NE1/4 NE1/4 SE1/4 sec 1, T1N, R26W, Harmon Co, OK in the Palo Duro basin. Overlies red-brown and gray-green shale of Dog Creek. Underlies the informal Hollis gypsum or Hollis gypsum bed. [Two names should not be derived from the same geographic feature.] Consists of yellow-gray fossiliferous pelletoidal dolomite 2 ft thick at type. Cross sections. Permian age.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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