Usage:
No current usage.
(†Grand Gulf Group (LA,MS) abandoned. Rocks reallocated to Catahoula and Fleming Formations. See Catahoula and Fleming.)
Geologic age:
Oligocene and Miocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in bluff at Grand Gulf, Claiborne Co., MS (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Arkla basin
Gulf Coast basin
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 ([ ]).