Usage:
Satilla Formation (FL,GA*,SC)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (late Pleistocene and Holocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from development along both sides of Satilla River, in Camden and Charlton Cos., GA Coastal Plain (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
Reference section: Satilla Bluff, 3 mi (5 km) east-southeast (downriver) of Woodbine, Camden Co., GA (Huddlestun, 1988).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin
Florida platform
South Georgia sedimentary province*
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 ([ ]).