Usage:
Sardis Formation (MS,TN*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in roadcut, 0.4 mi south of Sardis, southwest of Hurricane Creek, at 387, 400 N., 1,317,000 E, (Tennessee Coordinate System). Named from town of Sardis, Henderson Co., western TN (Russell, 1965; 1966).
AAPG geologic province:
Upper Mississippi embayment*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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