Usage:
Middendorf Formation (GA*,NC*,SC*)
Middendorf Formation of Lumbee Group (NC,SC)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: McKennon railroad stop along the Seabord Coast Line, approx. 2 mi northeast of community of Middendorf, Lat. 34 deg. 32 min. 59 sec. N., Long. 80 deg. 07 min. 48 sec. W., [Middendorf 7.5-min quadrangle], Chesterfield Co., coastal plain of SC (Swift and Heron, 1969; Prowell and others, 2003).
Named from exposures near Middendorf, Chesterfield Co., coastal plain of SC (Sloan, 1904).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
South Georgia sedimentary province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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