Usage:
Butlers Bluff Member of Nassawadox Formation (VA*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary*
Pleistocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Chesapeake Bay cliffs at Butlers Bluff between Picketts Harbor and Penn Central Railroad ferry landing, southern tip of Delmarva Peninsula, Northampton Co., VA (Mixon, 1985).
Principal reference section (subsurface): borehole CH-11, Nassawadox Formation type section (Mixon, 1985).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
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