Usage:
Arapahoe Sand Member of Flanner Beach Formation (NC)
Geologic age:
Pleistocene, middle
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: outcrops in bluffs of the Neuse River near Smith Gut, west of the mouth of Beard Creek, and near Pine Cliff Recreation Area, Cherry Point 7.5-min quadrangle, Pamlico Co., central eastern NC. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from nearby town of Arapahoe (Mixon and Pilkey, 1976; Miller, 1985).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin
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