Usage:
Maury Formation (AL*,GA*,TN*)
Maury Shale (AL,GA,TN)
Maury Member of Chattanooga Shale (GA*)
Maury Shale Member of Fort Payne Formation (TN)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along south side of road near top of west slope of Pull Tight Hill, 13.5 miles southeast of Franklin and 1.2 miles east of Cross Key, Williamston Co., TN (Hass, 1956).
Named from Maury Co., TN (Safford and Killebrew, 1900).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin*
Cincinnati arch*
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 ([ ]).