Usage:
Shellstone Creek beds (informal) (GA)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene, early
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated (Huddlestun, 1993).
Reference section: roadcut at the intersection of Red Dog Road and Magnolia Road on the southern valley wall of Shellstone Creek in Bleckley Co., southern GA (Huddlestun, 1993).
AAPG geologic province:
South Georgia sedimentary province
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