Usage:
Providence Formation (AL,GA)
Providence Sand (GA*)
Providence Sand of Selma Group (AL*)
Providence Sand of Fort Valley Group (AL,GA)
Providence Sand Member of Ripley Formation (AL)
Subunits:
Perote Member (AL*,GA*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures in deep gullies at Providence, 8 mi west of Lumpkin, Stewart Co., western GA (Veatch, 1909).
AAPG geologic province:
South Georgia sedimentary 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 ( ).
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