Usage:
Iuka Formation (MS,AL)
Geologic age:
Mississippian, Early
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Iuka, county seat of Tishomingo Co., northeastern MS (Morse, 1928).
Unspecified type locality is assumed to be on Indian Creek several miles north of Iuka (Childress, 1978).
AAPG geologic province:
Black Warrior basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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