- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Tuscaloosa Formation historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Taylor County
Formations (Geology)--Georgia--Taylor County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Taylor County, 32.55546, -84.25046
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: U.S. 19, 5.5 miles north of Butler
Text of marker: "TUSCALOOSA FORMATION. The sand clay formation here represents the first prominent Coastal Plain deposits laid upon an ancient floor of granites and gneisses. Southward this formation (Tuscaloosa Upper Cretaceous) becomes more and more deeply buried and contains marine beds. These rocks are more than 60,000,000 years old. Still older Lower Cretaceous rocks underlie them down the dip. Oil fields of Alabama and Mississippi are from marine beds of this formation, which occur also in Georgia to the south, indicating oil in Georgia too. 133-1 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1959" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_tuscaloosa-formation
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_tuscaloosa-formation
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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