Usage:
Bacons Castle Formation (VA*)
Bacons Castle Formation of Chesapeake Group (NC,VA)
Geologic age:
Tertiary, late*
Pliocene, late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town in Isle of Wight Co., southeastern VA. (Coch, 1965; Oaks and Coch, 1973)
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).