Usage:
Peedee Formation (NC*,SC*)
Peedee Formation of Lumbee Group (NC,SC)
Subunits:
Scotts Hill Member (NC*,SC*), Rocky Point Member (NC,SC)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures on Great Peedee River, SC, the exposures at Burches Ferry, on west side of Peedee River in Florence Co., eastern SC, being a typical one (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
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 ([ ]).