Usage:
Mosley Hill Formation of Jackson Group (LA)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: consists of those exposures on and around Mosley Hill, in secs. 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, and 11, T. 8 N., R. 2 W., Grant Parish, northern LA (Murray, 1952; Andersen, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Arkla basin
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