Usage:
Buffalo Creek Kaolin Member of Gaillard Formation (GA,SC)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Buffalo China Company's Franks and Bland Mines, in the eastern valley wall of Buffalo Creek, on the south side of GA Highway 24, approximately 8.5 mi west of Sandersville and 4 mi south of Deepstep, Washington Co., GA. Named from Buffalo Creek (Huddlestun and Hetrick, 1991).
AAPG geologic province:
South Georgia sedimentary province
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