Usage:
Sawdust Landing Member of Rhems Formation (SC)
Sawdust Landing Formation of Black Mingo Group (SC)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (early Paleocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: two large adjacent outcrops located on a high bluff overlooking Santee River, at Sawdust Landing (also known as Trezevant's Landing), Lat 33 deg. 43 min. 15 sec. N., Long. 80 deg. 37 min. 55 sec. W., Calhoun Co., central SC (Muthig and Colquhoun, 1988).
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.
"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 ([ ]).