Wilcox Group; Nanafalia Formation

Members of the Nanafalia Formation follow in descending order. Grampian Hills Member - medium-gray massive clay, claystone, sandy fossiliferous clay, and fossiliferous fine sand. "Ostrea thirsae beds" - glauconitic, abundantly fossiliferous, quartzose fine to medium sand. Gravel Creek Sand Member - pale-yellowish-orange to moderate-reddish-brown micaceous cross-bedded fine to very coarse sand containing gravel and clay pebbles in some exposures. Gravel Creek Member is absent locally and near the base may contain thin beds of lignite. Updip deposits in northern Henry County and southern Barbour County include beds of alternating medium-gray and white clay, carbonaceous clay, white and grayish-yellow fine to coarse sand and lenses of bauxite and bauxitic clay. Sand beds commonly are cross-bedded, gravelly, and contain numerous clay pebbles. The sequence of beds is often obscured by weathering and the collapse of beds into sinkholes in the underlying Clayton Formation.
State Alabama
Name Wilcox Group; Nanafalia Formation
Geologic age Paleocene
Lithologic constituents
Major
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Clay
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sandglauconitic, abundantly fossiliferous, quartzose fine to medium sand; pale-yellowish-orange to moderate-reddish-brown micaceous cross-bedded fine to very coarse sand containing gravel and clay pebbles in some exposures.
Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Claystone
Incidental
Sedimentary > Coal > Lignite (Bed)
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Gravel
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
Counties Barbour - Butler - Choctaw - Coffee - Conecuh - Crenshaw - Dale - Henry - Marengo - Monroe - Pike - Sumter - Wilcox