Usage:
No current usage.
(†Coharie Formation of Columbia Group (DE*,MD*,NC*,SC*,VA*), or †Coharie Formation (FL*,GA*), abandoned. Considered a geomorphic feature, Coharie terrace.)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Great Coharie Creek, a tributary of Black River in NC. The terrace plain formed by surface of the formation has a widespread development on either side of the narrow valley of this creek in northern half of Sampson Co. (Stephenson, 1912).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
Florida platform*
South Georgia sedimentary province*
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