Pg. 11 (fig. 8), 13-14, 28-29, 30, 31 (fig. 22). Beech Hill Formation. Occurs in subsurface of southern Dorchester County, southeastern South Carolina. Sediments previously included in the Cape Fear Formation by Hazel and others (1977) and Gohn and others (1977). Consists mostly of brown, noncalcareous clays and clayey sands. Thickness 47 feet at type. Overlies unnamed, highly oxidized and mineralogically altered basalt. Underlies Clubhouse Formation. Does not contain fossils, but age is constrained by late Cenomanian(?) and Turonian age of overlying Clubhouse Formation and Early Jurassic age of underlying basalt. Other workers have assigned these sediments to a variety of stages. Based on unfossiliferous nature and range of ages by other authors, age is considered Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian?).
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 2,417 to 2,464 ft, Clubhouse Crossroads No. 1 drill core, near Clubhouse Crossroads, Dorchester Co., southeastern SC. Named from Beech Hill Cemetery and Beech Hill Road, about 6 mi north of drill site.

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