No current usage.
(†Mattaponi Formation (VA) abandoned.)
Late Cretaceous and Paleocene
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 235 to 654 ft, municipality of Colonial Beach, Westmoreland Co., southeastern VA. Drilled by Virginia Machinery & Well Company, Inc. Named from nearby Mattaponi River (Cedertrom, 1957).
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 ([ ]).