Usage:
Coffee Sand of Selma Group (MS*,TN*)
Coffee Sand (IL*,MO*)
Coffee Formation of Selma Group (MS,TN)
Subunits:
Tupelo Tongue (at base) (MS*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Coffee Landing, Hardin Co., southwestern TN (Safford, 1864).
AAPG geologic province:
Upper Mississippi embayment*
Black Warrior basin*
Illinois basin*
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 ([ ]).