TABLE OF THE GEOLOGICAI FORMATIONS OF 

 ALABAMA. 



Recent 



Quaternary 



Tertiary 



j Soils 



^ First Bottom Deposits. 



f Second Bottom Deposits. 

 1 Columbia or Ozark Sands. 

 Lafayette. 



Pliocene. 



Miocene. 



Eocene . . <{ 



Grand Gulf, 

 Pascagoula. 



Chattahoochee j Alum, Bluff, 

 Beds | Oak Grove, etc. 



( St. Stephens, 

 Claiborne and Buhrstone. 

 Lignitic 

 Clayton or Midway. 



Cretaceous. 



Ripley, 

 Selma Chalk, 

 Eutaw. 

 Tuscaloosa. 



l Upper Coal Measures. 



Carboniferous. < f Bangor Limestone and j Contempor- 



l Lower , Qxmoor sandstone & shales. . . \ aneous. 



Ft. Payne 

 v chert. 



Devonian Black shale. 



Tuscumbia limestone (St. Louis) 

 1 Lauderdale chert (Keokuk) 



flipper. Red Mountain or Clinton. 

 Silurian. 1 j Trenton or Pelham Limestone, 



[Lower. } Knox Dolomite in part. 



Coosa or Flatwoods Shales. 

 Montevallo variegated shales and sandstones. 

 Cambrian. <j Aldrich Limestone. 

 ( Weisner Quartzite. 



Talladega or Ocoee Slates Metamorphic Pale- 

 ozoic strata; Coal Measures in part. 

 Ashland Mica Schists; Metamorphic Sediments 

 Metamorphic and of undetermined age; probably Paleozoic. 

 Igneous Rocks Mica Schists; older series; probably Pre-Cam- 

 brian. 



Igneous Rocks; granites, diorites, gneisses, etc. 

 of several ages; Pre-Cambrian and Paleozoic. 



