Usage:
Castle Hayne Formation (NC*)
Castle Hayne Limestone (NC*,SC)
Subunits:
New Hanover, Comfort, and Spring Garden Members (NC*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Eocene, middle*
Claibornian*
Lutetian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Ideal Cement Company quarry, just east of Castle Hayne, New Hanover Co., coastal North Carolina (Ward and others, 1978). [section now quarried out]
See also Martin Marietta quarry, New Hanover Co.,. as type section of undivided formation (Baum 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.
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