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During the Oligocene, South Carolina was home to bony fishes, sharks, and rays. [8] A primitive toothed whale called Xenorophus sloanii was preserved in Charleston County. [9] Miocene life of South Carolina included a great diversity of mollusks, who left behind a wide variety of fossil shells. [9] Pliocene life included mollusks and sea ...
Charleston earthquake or 1886. Charleston earthquake or 1886. An estimated $23 million ($186.51 million in 2023) in damage was caused by one of the great earthquakes in United States history in 1886. Charleston and nearby cities suffered most of the damage, although points as far as 160 kilometers (100 mi) away were strongly shaken.
The oldest dinosaur remains in the eastern US are about 225 million years old. [55] So, dinosaurs had reached the east coast of the United States not long after they evolved in the first place. [56] Fossil footprints are the most common kind of early dinosaur fossil in the eastern United States. [57]
Geology of the United States. Shaded relief map of the United States, showing 10 geological provinces. The richly textured landscape of the United States is a product of the dueling forces of plate tectonics, weathering and erosion. Over the 4.5 billion-year history of the Earth, tectonic upheavals and colliding plates have raised great ...
The Grand Strand is an arc of beach land on the Atlantic Ocean in South Carolina, United States, extending more than 60 miles (97 km) from Little River to Winyah Bay. [1] It is located in Horry and Georgetown Counties on the northeastern South Carolina coast. The term Grand Strand dates back to a November 19, 1949 The Myrtle Beach Sun column ...
Carolina terrane. The Carolina Terrane, also called the Carolina Superterrane or Carolinia, is an exotic terrane [1] running ~370 miles (600 km) approximately North-South from central Georgia to central Virginia in the United States. It constitutes a major part of the eastern Piedmont Province.
Selected Cenozoic taxa of South Carolina. † Abra. Acanthocardia. Shells of Acteocina barrel-bubble sea snails. Acteocina. Acteon. † Adeorbis.
The Sandhills, or Carolina Sandhills, is a 15–60 km wide region within the Atlantic Coastal Plain province, along the inland margin of this province. The Carolina Sandhills are interpreted as eolian (wind-blown) sand sheets and dunes that were mobilized episodically approximately 75,000 to 6,000 years ago. [ 2 ]