Usage:
Ten Mile Hill beds (informal) (SC*)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type locality not designated. Occurs near Charleston, SC.] (Weems and Lemon, 1984).
[Principal reference section] (subsurface): USGS auger hole LA-18 (Weems and Lemmon, 1985), northeast side of
unnamed dirt road ca. 0.11 mi. (0.18 km) southeast of a point on Crosscounty Road ca. 0.87 mi. (1.4 km)
north-northeast of Dorchester Road (S.C. Route 642). Latitude 32˚ 54’ 39” N; longitude 80˚ 04’ 06” W;
On p. 365, authors state "The dirt road adjacent to LA-18 is now the northeast-southwest leg of
Bryhawke Circle, and the location of auger hole LA-18 is now in a business parking lot."
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.
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