Usage:
No current usage.
(†Cottondale Formation (AL) abandoned.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
East of Cottondale, in sec. 25, T. 21 S., R. 9 W., Tuscaloosa Co., west-central AL (Monroe and others, 1946).
Named from town about 6 mi east of Tuscaloosa where several exposures are present along Southern RR and nearby county roads (Conant and Monroe, 1945).
AAPG geologic province:
Black Warrior basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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