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The first scientific reports of Alabama's geology were made during field studies by R. T. Brumby in the late 1830s and Sir Charles Lyell in the early 1840s. Michael Tuomey , appointed state geologist in 1847, completed a Geological Map of Alabama and in 1849 and published the first of two comprehensive reports on the state's resources a year later.
The Wilcox Group is an important geologic group in the Gulf of Mexico Basin and surrounding onshore areas from Mexico and Texas to Louisiana and Alabama. The group ranges in age from Paleocene to Eocene and is in Texas subdivided into the Calvert Bluff, Simsboro and Hooper Formations, [1] and in Alabama into the Nanafalia and Hatchetigbee ...
The Odenville Limestone is a geologic formation in Alabama.It preserves fossils dating from the early Ordovician Period.. As first described by geologist Charles Butts in a 1926 report on Alabama’s geology, the Odenville consisted of “impure argillaceous and siliceous dark fine-grained cherty limestone,” about fifty feet in thickness.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... The Rome Formation is a geologic formation in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.
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Part of the Cahaba coal fields, 1905. The Cahaba Basin is a geologic area of central Alabama developed for coal and coalbed methane (CBM) production. [1] Centered in eastern Bibb and southwestern Shelby Counties, the basin is significantly smaller in area and production than the larger Black Warrior Basin in Tuscaloosa and western Jefferson Counties to the northwest. [2]
The Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, western Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, and Alabama.It is a major ridge-former in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians of the eastern United States. [3]