Usage:
Nassawadox Formation (VA*)
Subunits:
Stumptown, Butlers Bluff, and Occohannock Members (VA*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary*
Pleistocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): borehole CH-11, east end of Route 648, 0.5 mi (0.8 km) east of Stumptown, west of Penn Central RR, 10 mi (16 km) south-southwest of town of Nassawadox, Cheriton 7.5-min quadrangle, Northampton Co., VA (Mixon, 1985).
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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).