Pg. 1339-1346. Milams member of Claiborne formation. Name proposed for that member of the Claiborne occurring below Saline Bayou member and above Crockett member. Type locality is in NE/4 sec. 17, T. 13, R. 3 W., Winn Parish, northwestern Louisiana, which is 0.5 to 0.75 mile southwest of Milams, on Arkansas Southern Railway. The section is (descending): (1) red clay, weathering orange, 6 feet; (2) gray plastic calcareous, fossiliferous, somewhat glauconitic clay with many corals, weathers dull orange red, with a few small lime nodules, 6 feet; (3) gray calcareous, very glauconitic fossiliferous clay, weathering orange red, with numerous small calcareous nodules, 10 feet; (4) zone of calcareous glauconitic concretions with fossil casts, 6 inches; (5) dark yellowish-gray, very glauconitic plastic fossiliferous clay, 3 feet; (6) badly weathered orange-red, very glauconitic fossiliferous sandy clay, many oysters, 10 feet, the upper 4 feet very ferruginous and indurated. [Occurs in northwestern Louisiana and eastern Texas (Angelina and Sabine Counties). Age is middle Eocene.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1368).

Pg. 87, 91-95, pl. 3. Milams member of Cook Mountain formation. Stratigraphically restricted below to exclude lower 17 feet which are placed in newly defined Dodson member. As redefined, the Milams consists of about 50 feet of calcareous glauconitic shales, lignitic shales, and marl which occur above glauconitic fossiliferous sands of Dodson member and below fossiliferous ironstone zones of Saline Bayou member. Age is Eocene (Claiborne).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 2499).