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  • Usage in publication:
    • Holloway Prairie [formation]
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Not stated
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Gulf Coast basin
Publication:

Doering, J.A., 1956, Review of Quaternary surface formations of Gulf Coast region: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 40, no. 8, p. 1816-1862. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pg. 1822 (table 1), 1826 (fig. 2), 1830, 1831 (table 2), 1833 (fig. 3), 1837 (table 3), 1848 (fig. 8). Holloway Prairie [formation]. In description of physiography of southwest Louisiana the following new formation names are introduced (descending): Sicily Island, Holloway Prairie, Eunice, and Oberlin. However, text discusses the Holloway Prairie as a terrace. Name is used for terrace areas given by Fisk (1938) as type localities of his "Prairie terrace"; new name is used to avoid extended correlations of the Prairie. Age is Recent.
Well developed at Holloway Prairie, Marksville, Big Cane, Mansura, and Grand Prairie, in Rapides and Avoyelles Parishes, southwestern LA.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1783-1784).


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