Usage:
No current usage.
(†Lafayette Formation (AL,AR,DE,FL,GA,LA,MD,MS,MO,NJ,NC,PA,SC,TX,VA) or †Lafayette Gravel (AR,IL,IN,MO,TN) abandoned.)
Geologic age:
Cenozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from typical exposures in Lafayette Co., MS (Hilgard, 1891).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin
Florida platform
Gulf Coast basin
Illinois basin
Mid-Gulf Coast basin
Ozark uplift
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
South Georgia sedimentary province
Upper Mississippi embayment
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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