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Geologic Unit: Flanner Beach

Usage:

Flanner Beach Formation (NC*)


Subunits:

Smith Gut Member (NC), Arapahoe Sand Member (NC), Beard Creek Member (NC), Newport Sand Member (NC), Mauls Point Member (NC), Hills Point Member (NC)


Geologic age:

Quaternary*
Pleistocene, middle*


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

Type section: right bank of Neuse River, Flanner Beach, Havelock quadrangle, Craven Co., eastern NC (DuBar and Solliday, 1963).


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 ([ ]).