Usage:
Parsonsburg Sand (DE*,MD*-recognized locally in "type area")
Geologic age:
Quaternary (late Pleistocene; Wisconsinan)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Reference locality: test hole Wi-Bg 11 at Melson, at north end of Parsonsburg Ridge [local name]; [Melson is about 0.75 mi south of MD-DE State line in Pittsville 7.5-min quadrangle, Wicomico Co., southeastern MD]. Named from Parsonsburg, a village 6 mi east of Salisbury, [Pittsville 7.5-min quadrangle, Wicomico Co.], southeastern MD (Rasmussen and Slaughter, 1955).
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.
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