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Geologic Unit: Creola

Usage:

Creola Member of Cockfield Formation of Claiborne Group (LA,MS)
Creola Member of Yegua Formation of Claiborne Group (TX)


Geologic age:

early Tertiary (middle Eocene)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: Creola Bluff on the Red River, near Montgomery, Grand Parish, central LA. [Old town of Creola was built on the bluff in 1850] (Stenzel, 1939).


AAPG geologic province:

Gulf Coast basin
Mid-Gulf Coast basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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