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Geologic Unit: Huber

Usage:

Huber Formation (GA*,SC*)
Huber Formation of Orangeburg Group (SC)
Huber Formation of Oconee Group (GA)


Subunits:

Marion Member (GA) and Jeffersonville member (GA)


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Paleocene
Eocene*


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

Exposures from vicinity of Dry Branch and Stone Creek Church, southeastward for 8 km to Flat Creek, Twiggs Co., GA. Named from Huber Post Office (Buie, 1978).


AAPG geologic province:

South Georgia sedimentary 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 ([ ]).