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Earth Science — Gulf Coast Salt Province

Thick clastic wedge over the Louann salt.

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Gulf Coast (salt-dome province)Recent deltaic sands0.00 mMiocene sands/shalesMiocene0.80 mFrio sandstoneOligocene2.80 mWilcox GroupEocene4.00 mLouann SaltJurassic5.60 m8.00 m87 million years missing5 layers, 8.00 m, and the contacts this could check are the right way up — but 1 layer of the 5 carri…1 layer of the 5 carries no `age` — `Recent deltaic sands`. Superposition is transitive, so the law was still check…87 million years are missing between `Louann Salt` and `Wilcox Group`: the lower layer ends long before the upper o…

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title "Gulf Coast (salt-dome province)"
type column
layer "Recent deltaic sands" thickness 0.8 color "#f5deb3"
layer "Miocene sands/shales" thickness 2.0 color "#a16207" age "Miocene"
layer "Frio sandstone"       thickness 1.2 color "#eab308" age "Oligocene"
layer "Wilcox Group"         thickness 1.6 color "#8b5e3c" age "Eocene"
layer "Louann Salt"          thickness 2.4 color "#e0f2fe" age "Jurassic"