Usage:
Rhems Formation of Black Mingo Group (SC*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in SC: Browns Ferry Member, Perkins Bluff Member, Sawdust Landing Member.
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (early Paleocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Perkins Bluff, Black River, 5 mi from Rhems, Williamsburg Co., eastern SC (Cooke, 1936).
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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