Usage:
Gulfport Formation (AL,FL,MS*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (late Pleistocene; Sangamonian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: along the MS coast at Bay St. Louis, Harrison Co. shore, and Bellefontaine Point, Gulfport, Harrison Co., southeastern MS (Otvos, 1972).
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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).