Fuller's Earth

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Description:

A sample of gray, fine-grained shale, or Fuller's earth, that is tan to brown on two sides. It was collected from a bluff on the east side of the Santee River, 2.5 miles south 20? west Gourdin, 500 feet east of the Seaboard Coast Line RR trestle, c. 1900; from the Black Mingo formation, Paleocene horizon.