Usage:
Lumbee Group (NC,SC)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NC,SC: Black Creek Formation, Middendorf Formation, Peedee Formation.
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: type sections of component formations (Black Creek, Middendorf, and Peedee), [Chesterfield, Darlington, and Florence Cos., eastern SC]. Named from Indian tribe that once occupied outcrop area near Cape Fear (Swift and Heron, 1969).
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 ( ).
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