Usage:
Spring Garden Member of Castle Hayne Formation (NC*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Eocene, middle*
Claibornian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Spring Garden Landing, 5.2 km east-northeast of Jasper, right bank of Neuse River, Craven Co., eastern NC (Ward and others, 1978).
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.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).