Geologic units in Jasper county, South Carolina

Chenier plain and deltas of Suwannee & Chattahoochie Rivers (Holocene) at surface, covers 24 % of this area

Chenier plain and deltas of Suwannee & Chattahoochie Rivers

Tidal Marsh (Quaternary) at surface, covers 18 % of this area

Peat and muck deposits along tidal margins of esturaries and back bays. Deposits range from a few feet to 60+ feet deep. Locally include silt and fine sand and clay as levees on tidal channels. At depth peaty material may be accumulated from fresh water plants. Peat at the surface dominated by spartina and other salt tolerant species.

Bear Bluff Formation (Pliocene) at surface, covers 17 % of this area

One of the older coastal terrace sequences in the Carolinas. Equivalent to Windsor Fm.

Alluvial Valley Swamp (Quaternary) at surface, covers 15 % of this area

Unconformable on all underlying units, fluvial sand and gravel at base, grading upwards into fine sands and silts, local peat. May be overrun with recent sediments from forest cutting and agriculture.

Penholoway Formation (Pleistocene) at surface, covers 14 % of this area

Similar to Cape May, broad lateral extent underlying terraces in the Carolinas; swamps and ridges on terrace surface were originally barrier islands and back bays. Superimposed on these landforms are swarms of Carolina bays.

Socastee Formation (Pleistocene) at surface, covers 7 % of this area

Low coastal formation in Carolinas like Penholoway but younger and lower in altitude.

Waccamaw Formation (Pleistocene) at surface, covers 4 % of this area

Another Carolina costalized terrace of early-middle Pleistocene age. Deeply weathered.

Duplin Formation (Pliocene) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Coastal terrace of Carolinas. Pliocene equivalent to Yorktown. Deeply weathered.

Pamlico shoreline complex - marsh and lagoonal facies (Pleistocene) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Pamlico shoreline complex - marsh and lagoonal facies

Pamlico shoreline complex - barrier island facies (Pleistocene) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Pamlico shoreline complex - barrier island facies

Stream alluvium (Quaternary) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Stream alluvium and undifferentiated terrace deposits