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Geologic Unit: St. Stephens

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †St. Stephens Limestone (AL) reallocated to Vicksburg and Jackson Groups. See Vicksburg and Jackson.)


Geologic age:

early Tertiary (Eocene and Oligocene)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from exposures in bluff at St. Stephens, Washington Co., southern AL (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).


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 ([ ]).