The more notable developments of geologic interest in the Gulf Coast Country during 1917, have taken place at Iberia, in Louisiana, and Damon Mound and Goose Creek, in Texas. Attention will be directed to these and incidentally to several other localities.

The New Iberia district is located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, on Tete Bayou, about 6 miles east of New Iberia.

Pronounced escapes of petroleum gas and so-called “paraffin beds” were discovered in this vicinity in the summer of 1916, and these showings lead to the drilling, which resulted in the discovery. There is no topographic feature present, except possibly...

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