Usage:
Escambia Sand Member of Pensacola Clay (AL*,FL*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Three oil test wells (subsurface): Baldwin-Garrett No. 1, in NE/4 NW/4 sec. 9, T. 9 S., R. 5 E.; Temple-Ehle No. 1, in center NE/4 SE/4 sec. 15, T. 18 S., R. 4 E.; and Temple-Sherrill et al No. 1, in SE/4 NE/4 sec. 15, T. 7 S., R. 4 E., Baldwin Co., southwest AL. Named from Escambia River in FL (Marsh, 1966).
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.
"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 ([ ]).