Usage:
Harleyville Formation of Cooper Group (SC*)
Harleyville Member of Cooper Formation (SC*)
Subunits:
/Drayton Limestone Member and Osborn Member (Weems and others, 2016).
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: at Giant Portland Cement Company quarry, 3.2 km north of Harleyville, east of Route 453, Ridgeville 15-min quadrangle, Dorchester Co., southern SC (Ward and others, 1979).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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