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  • Usage in publication:
    • Elberon Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sand
    • Clay
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Atlantic Coast basin
Publication:

Coch, N.K., 1965, Post-Miocene stratigraphy and morphology, inner coastal plain, southeastern Virginia: Office of Naval Research, Geography Branch Technical Report, no. 6, 97 p.


Summary:

Name Elberon Formation proposed for a silty sand, fine sand, and silty clay that overlies Bacons Castle Formation (new) beneath the Sussex and Isle of Wight Plains, and that is overlain by beach facies of Norfolk Formation at Suffolk Scarp. Maximum thickness 30 ft. Age is Pleistocene (Yarmouth?).

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Elberon†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Atlantic Coast basin
Publication:

Coch, N.K., 1968, Geology of the Benns Church, Smithfield, Windsor, and Chuckatuck quadrangles, Virginia: Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Report of Investigations, no. 17, p. 1-39.


Summary:

Elberon Formation abandoned. Replaced by Windsor Formation.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).


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