Tuscaloosa Formation - GMH 133-1 Taylor County
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Thorny1
N 32° 37.899 W 084° 15.175
16S E 757723 N 3613785
Located on US 19 5.5 miles north of Butler, GA.
Waymark Code: WM4RH6
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/23/2008
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The sand clay formation here represents the first prominent Coastal Plain deposits laid upon an ancient floor of granites and gneisses. Southward this formation (Tus¬caloosa 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.
GHM 133-1 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1959
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: GHM 133-1
Date: 1953
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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