Geologic units in Quitman county, Georgia

Providence Sand (Cretaceous) at surface, covers 49 % of this area

Providence Sand, includes Perote Member

Nanafalia, Porters Creek, and Clayton Formations, undifferentiated (Paleocene) at surface, covers 35 % of this area

Nanafalia, Porters Creek, and Clayton Formations, undifferentiated

Ripley Formation (Cretaceous) at surface, covers 12 % of this area

Ripley Formation

Stream alluvium (Quaternary) at surface, covers 2 % of this area

Stream alluvium and undifferentiated terrace deposits

Tuscahoma Sand (Paleocene) at surface, covers 0.5 % of this area

As mapped includes lower Eocene Bashi Marl Member of the Hatchetigbee Formation

Clayton Formation (Paleocene) at surface, covers 0.4 % of this area

Clayton Formation

Nanafalia Formation (Paleocene) at surface, covers 0.3 % of this area

Nanafalia Formation

Alluvial, coastal and low terrace deposits (Holocene) at surface, covers 0.2 % of this area

Varicolored fine to coarse quartz sand containing clay lenses and gravel in places. Gravel composed of quartz and chert pebbles and assorted metmorphic and igneous rock fragments in streams near the Piedmont. In areas of the Valley and Ridge province gravel composed of angular to subrounded chert, quartz, and quartzite pebbles. Coastal deposits include fine to medium quartz sand with shell fragments and accessory heavy minerals along Gulf beaches and fine to medium quartz sand, silt, clay, peat, mud and ooze in the Mississippi Sound, Little Lagoon, bays, lakes, streams, and estuaries.

Claiborne undifferentiated (Eocene) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Up-dip equivalent of Lisbon and Tallahatta Formations

Selma Group; Providence Sand (Cretaceous) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Upper part consists of cross-bedded fine to coarse sand and white, dark-gray and pale-red-purple mottled clay containing lignite, sand, and kaolin; lower part consists of dark-gray laminated to thin-bedded silty clay and abundantly micaceous, carbonaceous, fossiliferous very fine to fine sand. The Providence Sand extends eastward from southeastern Lowndes County into Georgia.

Selma Group; Ripley Formation (Cretaceous) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Light-gray to pale-olive massive, micaceous, glauconitic, fossiliferous fine sand; sandy calcareous clay; and thin indurated beds of fossiliferous sandstone.

High terrace deposits (Pleistocene) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Varicolored lenticular beds of poorly sorted sand, ferruginous sand, silt, clay, and gravelly sand. Sand consists primarily of very fine to very coarse poorly sorted quartz grains; gravel composed of quartz, quartzite, and chert pebbles.