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Geologic Unit: Dough Hills

Usage:

Dough Hills Member of Fleming Formation (LA*)


Geologic age:

Miocene*


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

Notable exposures in Dough Hills, centrally located in T. 4 N., R. 4 and 5 W., Rapides Parish, central LA (Fisk, 1940).


AAPG geologic province:

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 ([ ]).