Usage:
Boston Cliffs Member of Choptank Formation of Chesapeake Group (MD*,VA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene, middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Boston Cliffs along Choptank River, 2.9 km south-southeast of Dover Bridge on MD Highway 331, Talbot Co., MD (Gernant, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).