Usage:
Shirley Formation (VA*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary*
Pleistocene, middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: north-south face of the Tarmac-LoneStar borrow pit, 0.8 mi southwest of the intersection of State Highways 5 and 156, Charles City Co., Westover quadrangle, southeastern VA. Named from Shirley Plantation (Johnson and Berquist, 1989).
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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