- Usage in publication:
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- Hills Point Member
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Clay
- Silt
- Sand
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Atlantic Coast basin
Summary:
The Hills Point Member of the Flanner Beach Formation is here named in the Pamlico valley, Blounts Bay area, Beaufort Co., NC. It consists of blanket-like deposits of laminated silty clay and clayey silt with sand lenses, burrows, and carbonized wood and may represent lagoonal or river estuary deposits. Unconformably overlies pre-Flanner Beach fluvial deposits; grades eastward into an unnamed heavily burrowed sand unit of the Flanner Beach; intertongues with and grades upward into the Mauls Point Member of the Flanner Beach. Thickness is 2.5 m at type section. Age is middle Pleistocene.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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