Usage:
Ebenezer Formation of Hawthorn Group (GA*)
Ebenezer Member of Coosawhatchie Formation (FL)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (late Miocene; Tortonian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures in the low bluffs immediately down river from Ebenezer Landing on the Savannah River, Effingham Co., GA (Huddlestun, 1988).
Reference section (subsurface): Core Effingham 14 (Huddlestun, 1988).
AAPG geologic province:
Florida platform
South Georgia sedimentary province*
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 ([ ]).