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.
- Site: SC; Williamsburg Co.
- Site Number: NH25
- Dimensions: H-5 W-11 D-17 cm
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Paleogene
- Epoch: Paleocene
- Rock type: Sedimentary
- Formation: Black Mingo
- Collection: Geology Collection
- Object Name: Sedimentary Rock
- Object Id: GR89
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