- Usage in publication:
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- Bremen sandstone member*
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Black Warrior basin
Summary:
Bremen sandstone member of Pottsville formation. Gray, coarse-grained, thick-bedded quartz sandstone, 80 feet thick, occurring in lower part of Pottsville formation in Warrior coal field, northern central Alabama. Overlies Black Creek coal. Age is Pennsylvanian.
[Named from exposures in Bremen, northwest corner of Birmingham quadrangle, Cullman Co., northern central AL.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 258).
- Usage in publication:
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- Bremen Sandstone Member
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- Overview
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Appalachian basin
Summary:
Pg. 27. Bremen Sandstone Member of Pottsville Formation. A coarse-grained, thick-bedded sandstone just above the Black Creek coal in the Warrior coal field. Average thickness 80 feet. Present in Appalachian Plateaus province of northern Alabama. [Age is Early Pennsylvanian (Morrowan).]
See also Charles Butts, 1910, USGS Geol. Atlas of the US, Birmingham folio, no. 175, p. 9; W.C. Culbertson, 1964, USGS Bull. 1182-B, p. B18.
Source: Publication.
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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