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Geologic Unit: Smith Gut

Usage:

Smith Gut Member of Flanner Beach Formation (NC)


Geologic age:

Quaternary
Pleistocene, middle


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: Measured section SG1, bluffs on north bank of Neuse River, 3.4 km southeast of the mouth of Beard Creek and 0.3 km northwest of Smith Gut, Cherry Point 7.5-min quadrangle, Pamlico Co., NC (Miller, 1985).


AAPG geologic province:

Atlantic Coast basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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