Usage:
Forest Hill Formation (MS*,AL*,LA)
Forest Hill Formation of Vicksburg Group (MS)
Forest Hill Sand of Vicksburg Group (MS,AL)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Oligocene, early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on Jackson-Raymond Road, 0.5 mi northeast of Forest Hill School, in NE/4 sec. 22 and NW/4 sec. 23, T. 5 N., R. 1 W., Hinds Co., central MS (Monroe, 1954).
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.
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