Usage:
Lynch Heights Formation of Delaware Bay Group (DE)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: depth-interval 0 to approx. 90 ft, Delaware Geol. Survey drillhole Lf 21-19, a few mi northeast of Lynch Heights at intersection of Thompsonville Road and Big Stone Beach Road, Milford Neck area, [approx. Lat. 38 deg. 58 min. 22 sec. N., Long. 75 deg. 24 min. 38 sec. W.], Mispillion River 7.5-min quadrangle, Kent Co., central eastern DE (Ramsey, 1993; 1997).
Named from unincorporated village of Lynch Heights, just north of Milford [on DE Highway 113, Lat. 38 deg. 57 min. 08 sec. N., Long. 75 deg. 25 min. 32 sec. W., Milford 7.5-min quadrangle, Kent Co., central eastern DE] (Ramsey, 1993; 1997).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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