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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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