Usage:
Steel Creek Formation (GA*,SC*-recognized locally in vicinity of Savannah River site).
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): Savannah River Site well P 21TA, [UTM] 24,675 N.; 40,739 E., at approx. Lat. 33 deg. 09 min. 28 sec. N., Long. 81 deg. 35 min. 25 sec. W., Barnwell Co., SC. Named from Steel Creek, a tributary to the Savannah, about 2.4 mi west of the well (Fallaw and Price, 1992).
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 ([ ]).