Usage:
Prairie Bluff Chalk of Selma Group (AL*,MS*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian; Gulfian Provincial Epoch, Navarroan Provincial Age)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Prairie Bluff, Wilcox Co., central AL (Winchell, 1857).
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 ([ ]).