Usage:
Acredale Formation (VA)
Subunits:
(ascending) --all in VA: Great Bridge Member, Norfolk Member, Kempsville Member.
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene, late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Womack sand and gravel pit near municipality of Acredale, Virginia Beach, VA, Kempsville 7.5-min quadrangle, Lat. 36 deg. 47 min. 30 sec. N., Long. 76 deg. 10 min. 13 sec. W., 0.5 mi southeast of intersection of Indian River and Kempsville Roads (Spencer and Campbell, 1987).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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