Usage:
Hartselle Formation (AL,KY*,MS,TN*)
Hartselle Sandstone (AL*,GA*,KY*,MS)
Hartselle Sandstone Member of Floyd Shale (GA*)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; early Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures at Hartselle, Morgan Co., AL (Smith, 1894).
AAPG geologic province:
Black Warrior basin*
Appalachian 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 ([ ]).