Usage:
Wando Formation (SC*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (late Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: along Wando River, between Charleston and Berkeley Cos., SC (Sloan, 1905).
Type section (composite; outcrop and subsurface): (1) section measured in wall of sand pit 10 km east of Charleston; and (2) section in drillhole into floor of pit. [Pit now filled with water and slumped sediment; owned by Banks Construction Company and located north of Venning Road and east of Route 17-A] (McCartan and others, 1980).
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 ([ ]).