Usage:
Detonti Sand of Wilcox Group (AR*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on east bank of first prominent gully west of Detonti on Detonti-Tull Road near center of NW/4 NW/4 NW/4 sec. 4, T. 3 S., R. 14 W., Saline Co., [Tull 7.5-min quadrangle], central AR. Named from settlement of Detonti on Missouri Pacific RR (Gordon and others, 1958).
AAPG geologic province:
Ouachita folded belt*
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