Usage:
No current usage.
(†Alabama [deposits] (AL) replaced with Claiborne Group. See Claiborne.)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (early to middle Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Apparently named from exposures in AL (Smith, 1888; US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896).
AAPG geologic province:
Black Warrior basin
Mid-Gulf Coast basin
South Georgia sedimentary province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).