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Geologic Unit: Pine Barren

Usage:

Pine Barren Member of Clayton Formation of Midway Group (AL*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Paleocene*
Danian


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

In roadcuts and ditches on south side of Pine Barren Creek, along State Highway 100, from southern junction with State Highway 11 to bed of creek at McConnicos Mill in SE/4 sec. 21, T. 12 N., R. 10 E., Wilcox Co., southwest AL (MacNeil, 1946).


AAPG geologic province:

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 ([ ]).