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Oligocene Series undifferentiated
Oligocene Series undifferentiated - Descriptions of the units of the Oligocene Series follow in descending order. Paynes Hammock Sand - locally fossiliferous, calcareous, argillaceous medium to coarse sand; pale-blue-green clay; and thin-bedded sandy limestone; exposed at Paynes Hammock and at St. Stephens. Chickasawhay Limestone - white to yellowish-gray fossiliferous, glauconitic limestone and soft marl. Byram Formation includes three members in descending order: Bucatunna Clay Member - dark, bentonitic, carbonaceous, sparsely fossiliferous clay and greyish-yellow sand; unnamed marl member - light-grey to yellowish-grey sandy, glauconitic , fossiliferous marl; Glendon Limestone Member - irregularly indurated coquinoid and crystalline limestone, weathering to indurated rock containing large tubular cavities, locally known as 'horsebone'. Marianna Limestone - white to yellowish-grey soft, porous, very fossiliferous limestone. Forest Hill sand - dark-greenish-grey carbonaceous clay with lenses of glauconitic fossiliferous sand; extends eastward from MS into Choctaw, Clarke and Washington Counties. Red Bluff Clay - greenish-gray calcareous clay locally containing selenite crystals, yellowish-grey glauconitic, fossiliferous limestone; and light-gray silty clay with interbeds of sand (Forest Hill equivalent); from Tombigbee River eastward grades into glauconitic fossiliferous limestone equivalent to the Bumpnose Limestone. Bumpnose Limestone - very light-gray to yellowish-gray chalky, subcoquinoid, glauconitic, argillaceous, fossiliferous limestone; intertongues with Red Bluff Clay in vicinity of the Alabama River and is readily differentiated eastward from the Sepulga River.
| State | Alabama |
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| Name | Oligocene Series undifferentiated |
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| Geologic age | Oligocene |
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| Original map label | To |
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| Primary rock type | limestone |
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| Secondary rock type | clay or mud |
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| Other rock types | sand; bentonite |
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| Lithologic constituents | Major
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestonewhite to yellowish-gray fossiliferous, glauconitic limestone, thin-bedded sandy limestone, irregularly indurated coquinoid and crystalline limestone Minor
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Claydark, bentonitic, carbonaceous, sparsely fossiliferous clay Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sandlocally fossiliferous, calcareous, argillaceous medium to coarse sand; lenses of glauconitic fossiliferous sand. Incidental
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Silt Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Claystone > Bentonitedark, bentonitic, carbonaceous, sparsely fossiliferous clay Unconsolidated > Marllight-grey to yellowish-grey sandy, glauconitic , fossiliferous marl; |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Geographic coverage | Choctaw - Clarke - Conecuh - Covington - Escambia - Geneva - Monroe - Washington |
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