Usage:
Cypresshead Formation (FL,GA*,SC)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Pliocene, late*
Piacenzian
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposure in sand pit in the southern valley wall of Goose Creek, 0.25 mi (0.4 km) southeast of the confluence of Cypresshead Branch and Goose Creek and 4.6 mi north-northwest of the town of Jessup, Wayne Co., GA (Huddlestun, 1988).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin
South Georgia sedimentary province*
Florida platform
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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 ([ ]).