Usage:
Graham Ferry Formation (MS*)
Graham Ferry Member of Pensacola Formation (MS*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Pliocene*
Zanclean
Piacenzian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Rice Bluff, in NW/4 NW/4 sec. 38, T. 5 S., R. 7 W., and bluff beneath power line near center of irregular sec. 38, T. 5 S., R. 7 W., west bank Pascagoula River, Jackson Co., MS. Named from old river crossing midway between the two bluffs, locally known as Graham Ferry (Brown and others, 1944).
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 ( ).
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