- Usage in publication:
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- Sandridge Member
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sand
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Atlantic Coast basin
Summary:
Sandridge Member of Wicomico Formation. Upper Wicomico Formation divided into five members: Toney Bay, Dean Swamp, Sandridge, Wassamassaw Swamp, and Four Hole. The Sandridge consists almost entirely of well-sorted angular to subspherial fine-grained quartz sand. Thin discontinuous coarse-grained sand lenses encountered. No significant structures noted. Represents a sand bar and barrier island. Age is early Pleistocene.
Named from Sandridge, Eutawville quadrangle, eastern SC.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 663).
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