Usage:
Screven Member of Altamaha Formation (GA)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, early
Aquitanian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposure in Seaboard Coast Line RR cut in the eastern valley wall of the Little Satilla River, approx. 2.5 mi (4 km) southwest of the village of Screven, southwestern Wayne Co., GA (Huddlestun, 1988).
Reference locality: Upper Sister Bluff, Appling Co., GA.
AAPG geologic province:
South Georgia sedimentary province
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