Usage:
Charles City Formation (VA*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary*
Pleistocene, early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures in inactive sand and gravel pit on the north bank of the James River, at the Copeland triangulation station, east of Windmill Point, Charles City Co., Charles City quadrangle, southeastern VA (Johnson and Berquist, 1989).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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