Usage:
Orangeburg Group (SC*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in SC: Huber Formation, Congaree Formation*, Warley Hill Formation or Warley Hill Marl*, McBean Formation*, Barnwell Formation*, Santee Limestone, Cross Formation.
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (middle Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Tomb Field Gully, in old Orangeburg district (Lang Syne Plantation, near Fort Motte, now in Calhoun Co.), [Lat. 33 deg. 43 min. 45 sec. N., Long. 80 deg. 40 min. 04 sec. W.], central SC (Dall, 1898).
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.
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