Usage:
Shipps Creek Shale Member of Cook Mountain Formation of Claiborne Group (MS)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (middle Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along county road south of bridge across Shipps Creek, in SE/4 NE/4 sec. 28, T. 15 N., R. 3 E., about 4 mi northeast of Lexington, Holmes Co., west-central MS (Thomas, 1942).
AAPG geologic province:
Mid-Gulf Coast basin
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