Usage:
No current usage.
(†Princess Anne Formation (FL,GA,MD,NC,SC,VA) abandoned. Considered a geomorphic feature, Princess Anne terrace. Locally in SC considered an informal alloformation.)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from typical exposures at village of Princess Anne, Princess Anne Co., eastern VA (Wentworth, 1930).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin
South Georgia sedimentary 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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