Usage:
Gravel Creek Sand Member of Nanafalia Formation (AL*,MS)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Paleocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
South wall of Gravel Creek, 7.1 mi south of Camden, Wilcox Co., AL, on Highway 41 to Monroeville (LaMoreaux and Toulmin, 1959).
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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