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CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY<br />
<strong>Guidebook</strong> for 1992 Annual Meeting<br />
Pages 1-9<br />
OUTCROPS IN THE VICINITY OF THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE<br />
W. C. Fallaw<br />
Department of Geology<br />
Furman University<br />
Greenville, South <strong>Carolina</strong> 29613<br />
Van Price<br />
Westinghouse Savannah River Company<br />
Aiken, South <strong>Carolina</strong> 29808<br />
Walter J. Sexton<br />
Athena Technologies<br />
Columbia, South <strong>Carolina</strong> 29205<br />
ROAD LOG<br />
Saturday<br />
Miles Cumulative<br />
0.0 Leave Radisson and go west on 9 th Street<br />
0.6 0.6 Turn left onto Walton Way<br />
0.7 1.3 Turn right onto 5 th Street<br />
0.4 1.7 Bear right onto US 1, 78, 278 (Gordon Highway)<br />
and proceed west<br />
2.8 4.5 Turn left onto Old Savannah Road<br />
0.8 5.3 Turn left at stop sign, remaining on Old Savannah<br />
Road<br />
2.0 7.3 Cross I 520 and continue south on GA 56<br />
2.3 9.6 Cross Tobacco Road<br />
8.5 18.1 McBean sign<br />
1.3 19.4 McBean Creek<br />
0.1 19.5 Turn left onto GA 56 spur toward Vogtle generating<br />
plant<br />
0.3 19.8 STOP 1, LOCALITY M: “MCBEAN” CAR-<br />
BONATE (Figs. 1,2)<br />
Continue south on GA 56 spur toward Vogtle<br />
generating plant<br />
5.1 24.9 Gut Creek<br />
1.2 26.1 GA 56 spur ends; continue ahead on River Road<br />
7.8 33.9 Turn left at entrance to Plant Vogtle<br />
1.3 35.2 Plant Vogtle visitor’s center<br />
STOP 2, LOCALITY B; EOCENE CARBON-<br />
ATES AT PLANT VOGTLE BLUFF<br />
0.0 Reset mileage, leave visitor’s center, return to<br />
River Road<br />
1.2 1.2 At plant entrance, turn left and go south on River<br />
Road<br />
0.2 1.4 STOP 3, LOCALITY D; TOBACCO ROAD<br />
SAND AT VOGTLE PIT<br />
Turn around, proceed north on River Road<br />
0.3 1.7 Turn left onto Ebenezer Church Road<br />
4.0 5.7 Turn left onto GA 23<br />
4.1 9.8 Road to Griffins Landing on left<br />
0.8 10.6 Girard, GA<br />
0.5 11.1 Turn left toward Allendale, SC, leaving GA 23,<br />
and then bear right toward US 301 on Stony Bluff<br />
Road<br />
7.8 18.9 Turn left on unpaved road, remaining on Stony<br />
Bluff Road<br />
0.3 19.2 FRAGMENTS OF OLIGOCENE CHERT ON<br />
ROAD<br />
0.7 19.9 Turn right on unpaved road<br />
0.5 20.4 NORTHERN END OF LARGE CAROLINA<br />
BAY ON RIGHT<br />
3.9 23.8 Turn left onto paved road<br />
4.1 27.9 Turn left onto US 301<br />
1.4 29.3 Savannah River<br />
2.8 32.1 Turn left toward Martin, SC<br />
4.9 37.0 STOP 4, LOCALITY A; TOBACCO ROAD<br />
SAND AND ALTAMAHA FORMATION<br />
Continue ahead<br />
3.6 40.6 Martin, SC<br />
0.2 40.8 Turn left at stop sign onto SC 125 and cross<br />
Lower Three Runs<br />
8.3 49.1 Enter Savannah River Site<br />
17.0 66.1 Bear left at stop sign and exit Savannah River<br />
Site; proceed north through Jackson, SC on SC<br />
125 toward Augusta, GA<br />
14.4 80.5 Turn right into Augusta Sand and Gravel opera-<br />
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