- Usage in publication:
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- Edenhouse Member*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sand
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Atlantic Coast basin
Summary:
Lower transgressive beds of the Chowan River Formation of the Chesapeake Group in the Coastal Plain of northeastern NC and southeastern VA are here named the Edenhouse Member. It consists of shallow marine shelly, silty sands, locally bioturbated. Unconformably overlies the Morgarts Beach Member of the Yorktown Formation; unconformably underlies the Colerain Beach Member of the Chowan River Formation or the James City Formation. Age is late Pliocene.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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