Selma Group; Providence Sand (ALKp;1)

Selma Group; Providence Sand

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.

State	Alabama
Name	Selma Group; Providence Sand
Geologic age	Cretaceous
Lithologic constituents	Major Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sandabundantly micaceous, carbonaceous, fossiliferous very fine to fine sand. Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Claywhite, dark-gray and pale-red-purple mottled clay containing lignite, sand, and kaolin. Minor Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Silt Incidental Sedimentary > Coal > Lignite
References	Szabo, M.W., Osborne, E.W., Copeland, C.W. Jr., and Neathery, T.L., 1988, Geologic Map of Alabama, Geological Survey of Alabama Special Map 220, scale 1:250,000.
NGMDB product	NGMDB product page for 55859
Counties	Barbour - Bullock - Butler - Crenshaw - Henry - Lowndes - Montgomery - Pike

Selma Group; Providence Sand

Szabo, M.W., Osborne, E.W., Copeland, C.W. Jr., and Neathery, T.L., 1988, Geologic Map of Alabama, Geological Survey of Alabama Special Map 220, scale 1:250,000.