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  • Usage in publication:
    • Four Hole Member
    • Four Hole Swamp Member
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Atlantic Coast basin
Publication:

Colquhoun, D.J., and Duncan, D.A., 1966, Geology of the Eutawville quadrangle, South Carolina: South Carolina Division of Geology, Geologic Map Series, MS-12, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500


Summary:

Four Hole Member of Wicomico Formation; Four Hole Swamp Member of Wicomico Formation. Upper Wicomico Formation divided into five members: Toney Bay, Dean Swamp, Sandridge, Wassamassaw Swamp, and Four Hole. The Four Hole Swamp Member contains fluvial, estuarine, and palustrine environmental facies. Age is early Pleistocene.
Present within the embayment of the Surry Scarp in vicinity of Four Hole Swamp, Eutawville quadrangle, eastern SC.

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