- Usage in publication:
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- Alabama (Claiborne)
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- not stated
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Mid-Gulf Coast basin
- South Georgia sedimentary province
- Black Warrior basin
Summary:
[On this map the name Alabama (Claiborne) is applied to deposits underlying St. Stephens limestone and overlying the Lignitic, and the deposits thus designated are divided into Claiborne above and Buhrstone below. Age is middle Eocene. Apparently named from exposures in AL. Name replaced with Claiborne group.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 21).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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