Usage:
Dobys Bluff Tongue of Kosciusko Formation of Claiborne Group (MS)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (middle Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposure at Dobys Bluff, east side of Chickasawhay River, south of Quitman, in NW/4 SW/4 NW/4 sec. 18, T. 2 N., R. 16 E., Clarke Co., east-central MS (Dockery, 1980).
AAPG geologic province:
Mid-Gulf Coast basin
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