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Geologic Unit: Dismal Swamp

Usage:

Dismal Swamp Peat (VA,NC)


Geologic age:

Quaternary
Holocene


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Underlies Suffolk scarp in Dismal Swamp area, southeastern VA (Oaks and Coch, 1963).
Type section: ____ (Oaks and Coch, 1973).


AAPG geologic province:

Atlantic Coast basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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