Usage:
Owl Creek Formation of Selma Group (MS*,TN*)
Owl Creek Formation (IL*,MO*,KY*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on Owl Creek, 3 mi northeast of Ripley, Tippah Co., northern MS (Hilgard, 1860).
AAPG geologic province:
Upper Mississippi embayment*
Black Warrior basin*
Illinois 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 ([ ]).