Usage:
Eutaw Formation (AL*,FL,GA*,MS*,TN*)
Eutaw Formation of Selma Group (AL)
Eutaw Group (MS)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS: McShan Formation (MS).
FORMATION STATUS: Tombigbee Sand Member (AL*,GA*,MS*,TN*).
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Santonian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Eutaw, Greene Co., AL (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Black Warrior basin*
Mid-Gulf Coast basin*
South Georgia sedimentary province*
Upper Mississippi embayment*
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 ([ ]).