Usage:
Goose Creek Limestone (GA,NC,SC*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Pliocene, early*
Pliocene, middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: bluff along Goose Creek, 0.3 km east of the Seaboard Coastline RR bridge over Goose Creek, North Charleston 7.5-min quadrangle, Berkeley Co., SC (Sloan, 1908; Weems 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 ([ ]).