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Science 24 November 1978:
Vol. 202. no. 4370, pp. 887 - 890
DOI: 10.1126/science.202.4370.887
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Regional Implications of Triassic or Jurassic Age for Basalt and Sedimentary Red Beds in the South Carolina Coastal Plain

GREGORY S. GOHN 1, DAVID GOTTFRIED 1, MARVIN A. LANPHERE 2, and BRENDA B. HIGGINS 3

1 U.S. Geological Survey, National Center, Reston, Virginia 22092
2 U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, California 94025
3 U.S. Geological Survey, National Center

Whole rock potassium-argon ages for samples of subsurface basalt recovered near Charleston, South Carolina, are interpreted to indicate a Triassic or Jurassic age for the basalt and underlying sedimentary red beds. This age is consistent with existing evidence indicating that an early Mesozoic basin is present in the subsurface of a large part of the coastal plain of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

Submitted on May 10, 1978
Revised on July 12, 1978


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
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