Marl
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Description:
Two samples (GR829a-b) consisting of grains ranging from dust to sand collected from a 10 to 28 foot depth. It is intepreted as Ashley formation, Upper Oligocene. Sample B consists of grains consisting of light gray ranging in size from sand to lumps, from a depth of 65 feet at the bottom of a pit. The sample was intepreted as Harleyville formation, Upper Eocene. Both were collected from the Ashley Marl Works, 3.6 miles southwest of Sineath Station in Dorchester County, South Carolina.
- Site: SC; Dorchester Co.
- Site Number: NH40A
- Rock type: Sedimentary
- Formation: Ashley; Harleyville
- Collection: Geology Collection
- Object Name: Sedimentary Rock
- Object Id: GR829
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