It preserves fossils from the early Pleistocene epoch.

The Waccamaw Formation contains two informal members: "upper" and "lower".

The stratigraphic section preserves four transgressive pulses in the lower Waccamaw, and four in the Upper.

The molluscan fauna is quite diverse, nearly a thousand species have been reported.

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