Usage:
Mossy Ridge Lentil of Verda Member of Yazoo Clay of Jackson Group (LA)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Typically exposed in highway cuts north of Montgomery, in NW/4 sec. 10, T. 8 N., R. 5 W., and center of north line of sec. 18, T. 8 N., R. 3 W., Grant Parish, central LA (Fisk, 1938).
AAPG geologic province:
Arkla basin
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