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Claiborne/Jackson Group; Residuum

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.
StateAlabama
NameClaiborne/Jackson Group; Residuum
Geologic ageEocene-Oligocene
Original map labelTrs
Primary rock typeclay or mud
Secondary rock typeresiduum
Other rock typessand; limestone; chert
Lithologic constituents
Major
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Clay
Minor
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand
Incidental
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Bouldersfossiliferous chert and limestone boulders
Map references
Szabo, M. W., Osborne, E. W., Copeland, C. W. Jr., Neathery; T. L., 1988, Geologic Map of Alabama, Geological Survey of Alabama Special Map 220, scale 1:250,000.
Unit references
Szabo, M. W., Osborne, E. W., Copeland, C. W. Jr., Neathery; T. L., 1988, Geologic Map of Alabama, Geological Survey of Alabama Special Map 220, scale 1:250,000.
Geographic coverageButler - Coffee - Conecuh - Covington - Crenshaw - Dale - Escambia - Geneva - Henry - Houston - Monroe

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