Panoramic view of Eagle Point on January 15, 2005.  Click on any image for an enlarged view of all the images.

Eagle Point Pit, Stokes Sand and Gravel, Inc.

Location SC-11, Darlington County, South Carolina

The Pliocene Duplin Fm is brought to the surface by mining and is predominately below the lake level.  The Duplin layer is a loose, sandy material containing nice fossil shells mixed with lots of broken shells.  Many reworked Cretaceous fossils are found in the Duplin layer from the Black Creek Fm.  The contact between the Duplin and Black Creek layers is a shell hash containing many Cretaceous fossils mixed with the Pliocene shells.

Under the Duplin Fm is the Upper Cretaceous Black Creek Fm.  All the Black Creek layer is below the lake level.  The Black Creek Fm is also very sandy, but is slightly harder than the Duplin Fm.  Vertebrate fossils, wood, and phosphate nodules are the most common materials in the Black Creek Fm.  The Cretaceous fossils are very scattered in the undisturbed Black Creek layer and are more plentiful when reworked into the Duplin layer.

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