Usage:
Diamond City Formation (NC)
Diamond City Clay (NC)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
["Type section"] (subsurface): drillhole SH-11, on east end of Shackleford Banks, Carteret Co., east-central NC. Named from abandoned whaling village on this site (Susman and Heron, 1979).
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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).