Usage:
Perry Sand of Fort Valley Group (GA)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Eocene, middle
Claibornian
Bartonian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Roadcut and an abandoned sand pit on Valley Drive, southern valley wall of Bay Creek, approximately 1.5 mi west of the U.S. Interstate Highway I-75 and U.S. Highway 341 interchange at Perry, Houston Co., GA (Huddlestun and Hetrick, 1991).
AAPG geologic province:
South Georgia sedimentary province
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 ([ ]).