Geologic Unit: Beaverdam

Usage:

Beaverdam Formation (DE*)
Beaverdam Sand (DE*,MD*)

Geologic age:

late Tertiary (late Pliocene)*; possibly late Miocene to early Pleistocene*

Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Reference locality (subsurface): test hole Wi-Cf 63, 2 mi east of Salisbury, [Salisbury 7.5-min quadrangle], Wicomico Co., southeastern MD. Crops out in banks and roadcuts surrounding Schumaker Pond, [Salisbury 7.5-min quadrangle, Wicomico Co., southeastern MD]. Named from Beaverdam Creek, east branch of Wicomico River, because of its prominent occurrence in and beneath drainage basin of that stream (Rasmussen and Slaughter, 1955; see also Ramsey, 2010).

AAPG geologic province:

Atlantic Coast basin*