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Terrace Stratigraphy in the Tunica Hills of Louisiana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John J. Alford ,
Charles R. Kolb  and
Joseph C. Holmes
John J. Alford
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois 61455 USA
Charles R. Kolb
Affiliation:
Institute for Environmental Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 USA
Joseph C. Holmes
Affiliation:
Institute for Environmental Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 USA
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Abstract

The age and number of important fossil-producing late Pleistocene terraces in the Tunica Hills have recently become quite controversial. One hypothesis holds that only a single loess-mantled Farmdalian terrace flanks the streams in this area. The other maintains that there are two terraces. The youngest is considered essentially Holocene in age while the older is Sangamon in age. Radiometric and stratigraphic evidence collected for this study indicates that there are two terraces. The youngest is late Woodfordian to Holocene in age while the other is Farmdalian.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 55 - 63
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University of Washington

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