Abstract
Abstract Twenty pollen species recovered from auger samples of an isolated pod of sediment within the Piedmont Province of Meriwether County, Georgia, indicate a late Paleocene (early Sabinian) age for the deposit. The age assignment is based on the concurrent ranges of the species as they occur in the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains. No dinoflagellate cysts or acritarchs were observed in the samples examined, and their absence supports stratigraphic and sedimentologic evidence for a nonmarine origin of the sediments. The sediments have been protected from erosion by faulting along the southern margin of the basin containing them. The structural relationships and the Paleocene age for the deposit provide evidence of Cenozoic tectonic activity within the Piedmont Province of Georgia. Regional stratigraphic and sedimentologic evidence suggests that the deposit was probably a northward extension of the bauxite districts of Andersonville, Georgia, and Eufaula, Alabama. Illustrations of the twenty biostratigr...
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