Usage:
James City Formation [of Chesapeake Group?] (NC*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Pliocene, late
Quaternary*
Pleistocene, early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: right bank of Neuse River, New Bern quadrangle, Craven Co., eastern NC, about 0.6 mi downstream from Fort Point Light and 1.3 mi east of center of James City (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.
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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 ([ ]).