title: Salt Mountain Limestone
text: # Salt Mountain Limestone
  
  The Salt Mountain Limestone is a geologic formation in southern Alabama and Mississippi.
  
  It is a Paleogene Period limestone formation. and preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period.
  
  ## Name
  
  The name Salt Mountain Limestone replaced the descriptive name "Coral limestone" with Glendon limestone and replaced the paleontologic name "Orbitoidal limestone" with Marianna limestone. Both of these limestones are exposed near Salt Mountain, "which is now considered to be a tilted block brought up by the Jackson fault.
  
  