Usage:
Glendon Limestone of Vicksburg Group (GA,MS)
Glendon Formation of Vicksburg Group (AL*,MS*)
Glendon Limestone Member of Byram Formation of Vicksburg Group (AL)
Glendon Limestone (FL?,GA)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Oligocene, early*
Rupelian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures at Glendon, a flag station on the Southern RR between Jackson and Walker Springs, in the southern part of sec. 31, T. 7 N., R. 3 E., Clarke Co., southwest AL (Hopkins, 1917; MacNeil, 1944).
Reference section: St. Stephens quarry, St. Stephens, AL (Hopkins, 1917).
AAPG geologic province:
Mid-Gulf Coast basin*
South Georgia sedimentary province
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