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Geologic units containing residuum

Alabama

Claiborne/Jackson Group; Residuum (Eocene-Oligocene)

Residuum - (Claiborne/Jackson Group), White to moderate-reddish-orange locally mottled sandy clay and residual clay with scattered layers of gravelly medium to coarse sand, fossiliferous chert and limestone boulders and limonitic sand masses. Derived from solution and collapse of limestone in the Jackson Group and Oligocene Series and the slumping of Pliocene and Miocene sediments.

Idaho

Gravel, sand, and clay; Quaternary-Tertiary colluvium and fanglomerate; western Idaho (Pleistocene and Pliocene)

Pleistocene and Pliocene fanglomerate, colluvium, and poorly sorted gravel deposits.