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Geologic Unit: St. Leonard

Usage:

St. Leonard Member of Choptank Formation of Chesapeake Group (MD*,VA*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Miocene, middle*


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

Type section: Cliffs on Chesapeake Bay at Matoaka Cottages, 0.3 mi north of Calvert Beach and 1.25 mi east of St. Leonard, Cove Point 7.5-min quadrangle, Calvert Co., MD (Gernant, 1970).


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 ([ ]).