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  • Usage in publication:
    • Conway Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sand
    • Clay
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Atlantic Coast basin
Publication:

DuBar, J.R., 1969, Biostratigraphic significance of Neogene macro-fossils from two dug ponds, Horry County, South Carolina: South Carolina Division of Geology, Geologic Notes, v. 13, no. 3, p. 67-71.


Summary:

Conway Formation, here named in Horry Co., SC, is composed of sand and clay, backbarrier deposits. Thickness ranges from 1.5 to 6 m. Overlies Waccamaw or Bear Bluff Formations. Age is late Pleistocene.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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