Midway Group; Porters Creek Formation

Dark-gray massive plastic clay in western AL with a thin bed of glauconitic shell marl at the top (Mathews Landing Marl Member). Becomes calcareous eastward grading into light-greenish-gray calcareous, micaceous, clayey fine to medium sand, medium-gray sandy, calcareous clay and white to light-gray thin bedded partly clayey, fossiliferous limestone. East of Crenshaw County, owing to lithologic similarity, beds correlative with the Porters Creek are included in the Clayton Formation.
State Alabama
Name Midway Group; Porters Creek Formation
Geologic age Paleocene
Lithologic constituents
Major
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital > Clay
Minor
Unconsolidated > Marlthin bed of glauconitic shell marl at the top (Mathews Landing Marl Member).
Incidental
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)
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 Butler - Choctaw - Crenshaw - Lowndes - Marengo - Pike - Sumter - Wilcox