Usage:
Belgrade Formation (NC*)
Subunits:
Pollocksville (NC*) and Haywood Landing (NC*) Members.
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Oligocene, late
Miocene, early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Martin Marietta Company Belgrade quarry, just east of intersection of County Route 1434 and U.S. Highway 17, Belgrade, Onslow Co., NC (Ward and others, 1978).
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 ([ ]).