Usage:
Bossier Formation of Cotton Valley Group (AL*,AR*,LA*,TX*)
Bossier Shale (LA)
Geologic age:
Late Jurassic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 6,515 to 8,140 ft, Phillips Petroleum Company Kendrick No. 1 well, in NE/4 SW/4 sec. 22, T. 19 N., R. 11 W., Bossier Parish, western LA (Swain, 1944).
Reference section (subsurface): depth-interval from 9,200 to 11,018 ft (1,818 ft thick), Union Production Company Section 13 Unit 1 well (Dickinson, 1968).
AAPG geologic province:
Arkla basin*
East Texas basin*
Mid-Gulf Coast basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).