Usage:
Okefenokee Formation (GA,FL,SC)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Okefenokee Swamp, a great swampy tract in southern GA covering part of Charlton, Ware, and Clinch Cos. The swamp occupies a portion of the plain on which these deposits were laid down (Veatch and Stephenson, 1911).
AAPG geologic province:
South Georgia sedimentary province
Atlantic Coast basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
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