Usage:
Pekin Formation of Chatham Group of Newark Supergroup (NC*)
Geologic age:
Late Triassic (Carnian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures along the road running due east from Mt. Gilead to the village of Pekin, about 0.5 mi east of Little River, Wadesboro basin, Montgomery Co., NC (Campbell and Kimball, 1923).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province*
Wadesboro basin*
Sanford basin*
Durham basin*
Deep River basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).