Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Camden series [informal] (AR,LA,OK,TX) reallocated to Midway, Wilcox, Claiborne, and Jackson Groups. See Midway, Wilcox, Claiborne, and Jackson.)
[When referring to the Camden series of Hill (1888), please use informally. The practice of employing "Series" for lithostratigraphic or lithodemic nomenclature is now regarded as improper (ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). The term "Series" is applied formally only to chronostratigraphic units.]
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Paleocene to Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in bluffs at Camden, [Camden 7.5-min quadrangle], Ouachita Co., southern AR (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Arkla basin
Arkoma basin
Desha basin
East Texas basin
Gulf Coast basin
Mid-Gulf Coast basin
Ouachita folded belt
Ozark uplift
Upper Mississippi embayment
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 ([ ]).