- Usage in publication:
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- Clubhouse Formation*
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Biostratigraphic dating
- Dominant lithology:
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- Silt
- Clay
- Sand
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Atlantic Coast basin
Summary:
Pg. 11 (fig. 8), 14-15, 28, 30, 31 (fig. 22). Clubhouse 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 gray, calcareous clay-silts and fine sands. Thickness 79 feet at type. Overlies Beech Hill Formation (new); underlies Cape Fear Formation. Fossils. Age is Late Cretaceous (late Cenomanian? to middle Turonian; Eaglefordian Provincial Age; ROTALIPORA CUSHMANI to HELVETOGLOBOTUNCANA HELVETICA planktic foram zone, LITHRAPHIDITES ACUTUS to EIFFELLITHUS EXIMIUS (NC13 to NC14) calcareous nannofossil zone).
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 2,338 to 2,417 ft, Clubhouse Crossroads No. 1 drill core, Dorchester Co., southeastern SC. Named from nearby hamlet of Clubhouse Crossroads, Dorchester Co., southeastern SC.
Source: Publication.
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