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Geologic Unit: McBean

Usage:

McBean Formation (GA*)
McBean Formation of Orangeburg Group (SC*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Eocene, middle*


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

Exposures at McBean and on McBean Creek, Richmond Co., GA (Veatch and Stephenson, 1911).


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 ([ ]).