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  • Usage in publication:
    • Aiken beds
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sand
    • Clay
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Atlantic Coast basin
Publication:

Sloan, Earle, 1904, A preliminary report on the clays of South Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey Bulletin, 4th series, no. 1, 175 p.


Summary:

Pg. 72. Aiken beds. The deposits exposed at Aiken, Aiken County, western South Carolina, which include (descending): Pliocene(?), 40 feet (divided into eolean sands, 8 feet; Lafayette cobbles, 2 feet; Lafayette loams, 10 feet; Lafayette mottled clay, 6 feet; coarse sands, 13 feet; pebbles, 1 foot); Cretaceous, 274 feet (divided into Middendorf beds, 93 feet; Upper Hamburg beds and Lower Hamburg beds, 181 feet). Age is considered Pliocene(?) and Late Cretaceous.
[According to US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 19), name abandoned. Reference not given.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 19).


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