Usage:
No current usage.
(†Allsboro Sandstone (AL,MS) replaced with Tanyard Branch Member of Pride Mountain Formation. See Tanyard Branch.)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; early Chesterian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from small village of Allsboro, Colbert Co., northwestern AL, near MS line. Well exposed north and south of Allsboro, Colbert Co., northwestern AL, and Tishomingo Co., northeastern MS (Morse, 1928, 1930).
AAPG geologic province:
Black Warrior basin
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