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AAPG Bulletin

Abstract

Volume: 33 (1949)

Issue: 12. (December)

First Page: 2069

Last Page: 2069

Title: Surface and Subsurface Correlation of Wilcox Formation in West-Central Louisiana: ABSTRACT

Author(s): D. A. Robertson, C. M. Schwartz, A. H. Trowbridge

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

Surface samples of the Wilcox and Midway formations were collected and examined for lithologic characteristics and faunal content. These formations exhibit a cyclic pattern of deposition. Fossils are rare.

The surface equivalents were examined in the subsurface and it was noted that the cyclic pattern exhibited in the outcropping formations extended with marked regularity into the subsurface.

Microfossils and macrofossils were examined from cuttings and a number of these were used along with the cyclic pattern, to correlate the surface formations with their equivalents in the subsurface.

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