Usage:
Kempsville Formation (VA)
Kempsville Member of Acredale Formation (VA)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene, late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from Kempsville in Princess Anne Co., southeastern VA (Oaks and Coch, 1963).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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