Usage:
River Bend Formation (NC*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Oligocene, middle*
Oligocene, late*
Vicksburgian(?)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures 0.3 km above Rhems Landing, left bank of Trent River, just below River Bend, Craven Co., northeastern NC (Ward and others, 1978).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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