Usage:
Black Mingo Formation (SC*,NC*)
Black Mingo Group (SC*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in SC: Fishburne Formation, Lang Syne Formation, Rhems Formation*, Sawdust Landing Formation*, Williamsburg Formation*.
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Paleocene and Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures along Black River from Brewington Lake, Clarendon Co., eastern SC, to mouth of Black Mingo Creek, up which it is exposed to a point between Rhems and General Marion Bridge, [Lake Marion, Clarendon Co.] (Sloan, 1907).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).