Usage:
Chapel Branch Member of Santee Limestone (SC)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Eocene, middle
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: south shore of Lake Marion, 1.5 mi (2.41 km) northwest of U.S. Highway 301 crossing, Santee State Park, access by unnumbered paved road, 1.5 mi (2.41 km) east of crossing of County Roads 105 and 82, Orangeburg Co., SC. Named from nearby Chapel Branch (Powell, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin
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