Usage:
Tobacco Road Sand (GA*,SC*)
Tobacco Road Sand of Barnwell Group (GA*,SC*)
Subunits:
Sandersville Limestone Member (GA)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: [southwest of Augusta, GA, center] on east side of Morgan Road, 0.5 km north of junction of Morgan Road and Tobacco Road, [east of Route 1 (Deans Bridge Road), approx. Lat. 33 deg. 23 min. 36 sec. N., Long. 82 deg. 06 min. 00 sec. W., southwestern corner Augusta West 7.5-min quadrangle], Richmond Co., GA (Huddlestun and Hetrick, 1978).
AAPG geologic province:
South Georgia sedimentary 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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