- Usage in publication:
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- Bashi marl
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Marl
- Sand
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Mid-Gulf Coast basin
Summary:
[Credited to E.A. Smith], p. 39, 43-46, 69. Wood's Bluff or Bashi marl. Marl, with marine fossils and much greensand, 15 to 30 feet thick, forming top member of Wood's Bluff or Bashi series. Overlain by purplish brown sandy clays forming basal part of Hatchetigbee series. [Age is early Eocene.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 122-123).
- Usage in publication:
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- /Bashi marl†
- Modifications:
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- Abandoned
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Mid-Gulf Coast basin
Summary:
†/Bashi marl abandoned. Conflicts with Bashi formation, of which it is top member.
Named from exposures on Bashi Creek, [Woods Bluff 7.5-min quadrangle], Clarke Co., southwestern AL.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 122-123).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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