Usage:
Bashi Formation of Wilcox Group (AL*,FL*,GA*,MS*)
Bashi Marl Member of Hatchetigbee Formation of Wilcox Group (AL*,FL*,GA*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (early Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures on Bashi Creek, [Woods Bluff 7.5-min quadrangle], Clarke Co., southwestern AL, especially at Wood's Bluff, Tombigbee River, just below mouth of Bashi Creek (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
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 ([ ]).