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Geologic Unit: Mooreville

Usage:

Mooreville Formation of Selma Group (MS*,AL*)
Mooreville Chalk of Selma Group (MS*,AL*)


Subunits:

Arcola Limestone Member (MS*,AL*)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous (Santonian to Campanian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from development at Mooreville, Lee Co., MS (Stephenson, 1917).


AAPG geologic province:

Black Warrior basin*
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 ([ ]).