Usage:
Sandersville Limestone (GA)
Sandersville Limestone Member of Barnwell Formation (GA*)
Sandersville Limestone Member of Tobacco Road Sand (GA)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Eocene, late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
At a sink west of the Tenmile Road, 0.8 mi south of courthouse at Sandersville, Washington Co., eastern GA (Cooke, 1943).
AAPG geologic province:
South Georgia sedimentary province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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