Usage:
Beaufort Formation (NC*,SC*)
Subunits:
Jericho Run Member (NC*), Moseley Creek Member (NC).
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Paleocene; Midwayan Provincial Age)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
["Type section"] (subsurface): well 215 ft deep, drilled in 1952 for Nelson Motel, Chicowinity, Beaufort Co., eastern NC (Brown, 1959).
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 ([ ]).