Usage:
Chipola Formation of Alum Bluff Group (AL*,FL*,GA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene, early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
McLelland's Farm, near Bailey's ferry, northern Calhoun Co., northwestern FL. Named from exposures on Chipola River, Jackson Co., FL (Gardner, 1926).
AAPG geologic province:
Mid-Gulf Coast basin*
Florida platform*
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 ([ ]).