Usage:
Beard Creek Member of Flanner Beach Formation (NC)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: bluffs on the north shore of the Neuse River, 0.6 km northwest of Beard Creek and 0.3 km upstream from Whisk Point, Upper Broad Creek 7.5-min quadrangle, Pamlico Co., NC (Miller, 1985).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin
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