Usage:
Jacksonboro Limestone (GA)
(†Jacksonboro Limestone not used by the USGS. Replaced with Parachucla Formation. See Parachucla.)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures near confluence of Brier Creek and Beaver Dam Creek, which together form a tributary of Savannah River, 3 mi below Jacksonboro, Screven Co., eastern GA (Dall, 1892).
AAPG geologic province:
South Georgia sedimentary province
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