Usage:
Piney Point Formation (MD*,DE*,NJ)
Piney Point Formation of Pamunkey Group (VA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Eocene, middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): St. M-Fe 24, drilled for Curtiss Steuart in 1950 near tip of Piney Point Peninsula, 0.8 mi northeast of Piney Point lighthouse, St. Marys Co., MD (Otton, 1955).
Reference section: exposures along right bank of Pamunkey River (USGS Locality 26412) at Horseshoe, Manquin 7.5-min quadrangle, Hanover Co., VA.
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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