Usage:
Snow Hill Member of Black Creek Formation (NC,SC)
(†Snow Hill Member abandoned by the USGS. Replaced with Tar Heel Formation and Bladen Formation of Black Creek Group. See also Tar Heel and Bladen.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures on the farm of L.C. Daniels along Contentnea Creek, 2 mi below Snow Hill, Greene Co., NC. (Le Grand and Brown, 1955).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin
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