Pollen biostratigraphy of Lower Tertiary sediments from five cores from Screven and Burke Counties, Georgia

Abstract

Seventeen biostratigraphically useful lower Tertiary samples were examined for their pollen taxa from five test holes (Millhaven, Girard, Thompson Oak, Millers Pond, and McBean) in Screven and Burke Counties, Georgia. Ten biostratigraphically useful samples from the Ellenton Formation have earliest and latest possible ages of late early Paleocene and late Paleocene, respectively, but most or all of the samples are probably late early or early late Paleocene. One good sample from the Snapp Formation is no older than earliest late Paleocene and no younger than middle late Paleocene. Four productive samples from the Congaree Formation are not very well dated using pollen, but possible ages are generally from late early to middle middle Eocene. Two samples from the Santee Limestone are poorly dated from pollen within the late early Eocene to middle Eocene (or younger?) interval.