- Usage in publication:
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- New Bern Formation
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Atlantic Coast basin
Summary:
The New Bern Formation is here named in the area lying between the Neuse and Trent Rivers, Craven and Jones Cos., NC. It consists of predominantly sandy, basal pelecypod-mold biomicrosparrudite, 6 m thick, and overlying biosparite and biosparrudite, 1.8 m thick, and biomicrosparrudite, 1.4 m thick. Disconformably overlies the Castle Hayne Limestone; disconformably underlies the Trent or Yorktown Formation. Age is late Eocene.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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