Usage:
Shubuta Member of Yazoo Formation of Jackson Group (AL*,MS*)
Shubuta Clay Member of Yazoo Clay of Jackson Group (MS)
Shubuta Member of Yazoo Clay of Jackson Group (AL,LA?)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: east side of Chickasawhay River, just north of U.S. Highway 45 bridge east of Shubuta, in SW/4 sec. 3, T. 10 N., R. 16 E., Clarke Co., eastern MS (Murray, 1947).
AAPG geologic province:
Arkla basin[?]
Mid-Gulf Coast basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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