Usage:
Tallahatta Formation of Claiborne Group (AL*,FL*,GA*,MS*, and subsurface of KY*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Basic City Shale Member (MS*), Holly Springs Sand Member (MS*), Meridian Sand Member (AL*,MS*), Neshoba Sand Member (MS*).
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late early to early middle Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from development in Tallahatta Hills, Choctaw Co., southern AL (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Mid-Gulf Coast basin*
South Georgia sedimentary province*
Upper Mississippi embayment*
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 ([ ]).