Alabama and Mississippi
Comments on Geologic Parameters
Geological Parameter 07, Top Seal Thickness
- Arbuckle Group
- Basin Fill /Carbonates
- Cape Fear Formation
- Cedar Keys Lawson
- Fox Hills, Lower Hell Creek
- Glen Canyon Group
- Granite Wash
- Lower Potomac Group
- Lyons Formation
- Madison Group
- Miocene, Lower
- Miocene, Upper
- Morrison Formation
- Mt. Simon Formation
- Oligocene
- Oriskany Formation
- Paluxy Sand
- Pliocene, Lower
- Pliocene, Upper
- Pottsville Formation
- Pre-Tuscaloosa
- Repetto Formation
- St. Peter Sand
- Tuscaloosa (AL)
- Tuscaloosa (GA)
- Woodbine Formation
07 Top Seal Thickness:
To the northeast, the Pottsville is exposed, and the south half of the basin is unconformably covered by the Cretaceous Tuscaloosa Group and younger sediments of the Gulf Coastal Plain (Thomas, 1988). The Mesozoic rocks reflect deposition in coastal-plain to shallow-marine environments.
07 Reference:
Thomas, W. A., 1988, The Black Warrior Basin: The Geology of North America, v. D-2, Sedimentary Cover—North American Craton: U.S.: The Geological Society of America, Chapter 16, p. 471–492, 1 plate.