Usage:
Cocoa Sand Member of Yazoo Formation of Jackson Group (AL*,MS*)
Cocoa Sand Member of Yazoo Clay of Jackson Group (AL)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from abandoned country post office called Cocoa, which many years ago stood in SW/4 sec. 13, T. 11 N., R. 5 W., Choctaw Co., about 2.5 mi east of Melvin, on road to Gilbertown, southwestern AL (Cooke, 1933).
AAPG geologic province:
Mid-Gulf Coast basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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