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Geologic Unit: Chandler Bridge

Usage:

Chandler Bridge Formation (SC*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Oligocene*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: Charleston Museum paleontologic excavation site, 0.7 km northwest of the confluence of Chandler Bridge Creek and Eagle Creek, NE Stallsville quadrangle, Dorchester Co., SC (Sanders and others, 1982).


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 ([ ]).