Usage:
No current usage.
(†Millingport Formation of Albemarle Group (NC*) abandoned.)
Geologic age:
Cambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: along NC Highway 71, from 8 km west to 3.2 km east of town of Millingport, Mount Pleasant quadrangle, Stanly Co., central NC (Stromquist and Sundelius, 1969).
AAPG geologic province:
Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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