- Usage in publication:
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- Mobile Clay
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Clay
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Mid-Gulf Coast basin
Summary:
Mobile Clay named in Mobile Co., southwestern AL, where it is exposed along the Mobile River and nearby highways and in gravel pits. Unit consists of dark-green, lavender, gray, and brassy-yellow clay. It is a laminated to massive, fossiliferous, marine and transitional-marine deposit. Thickness less than 450 m. Overlies Chickasawhay Limestone or (downdip to south) the Tampa Limestone; underlies Ecor Rouge Sand. Age is middle Miocene.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
- Usage in publication:
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- Mobile
- Modifications:
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- Not used
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Mid-Gulf Coast basin
Summary:
Mobile Clay is apparently not considered formal AL State usage as it is not listed in this compilation. The Miocene in AL is undifferentiated in this report, except for the Pensacola Clay in the southwest subsurface.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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