Usage:
Jericho Run Member of Beaufort Formation (NC*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Paleocene, early*
Danian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Locality NC-LEN-0-8-73, exposures at and upstream from waterfall (on Jericho Run, tributary to Neuse River), in ravine extending back from Jericho Run fault scarp, 0.8 km northeast of County Road 1809 (Lat. 35 deg. 19 min. 14 sec. N., Long. 77 deg. 29 min. 43 sec. W.) near Graingers, Lenoir Co., NC (Brown and others 1977).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
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