Usage:
Chesapeake Group (DE*,DC*,MD*,NC*,VA*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Bacons Castle Formation (NC,VA), Bethany Formation (DE), Calvert Formation (DE*,MD*,NC,VA*), Cat Hill Formation (DE-subsurface), Choptank Formation (DE,MD*,VA*), Chowan River Formation (NC*,VA*), Eastover Formation (MD*,NC*,VA*), Old Church Formation (MD*,VA*), St. Marys Formation (DE*,MD*,VA*), Yorktown Formation (MD*,NC*,VA*).
Geologic age:
Tertiary (late Oligocene to late Pliocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: areas adjacent to Chesapeake Bay (Darton, 1891).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).