- Usage in publication:
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- Smith Gut 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:
Flanner Beach Formation is here divided into several newly named or newly formalized members. Basal transgressive beds of the Flanner Beach Formation exposed in the Neuse River valley of the NC Coastal Plain are here named the Smith Gut Member. It is an irregular blanket-shaped deposit consisting of olive-brown to greenish-gray pebbly, shelly, muddy sand. Disconformably overlies the James City Formation; gradationally underlies the Arapahoe Sand, Beard Creek, and Newport Sand Members of the Flanner Beach Formation. Thickness is 0.5 m at type section. Age is middle Pleistocene.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Reston GNULEX).
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