Usage:
Sunken Meadow Member of Yorktown Formation of Chesapeake Group (NC*,VA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Pliocene, early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Beds in cliffs 1.3 km below Sunken Meadow Creek, right bank of James River, Claremont 7.5-min quadrangle, Surry Co., eastern VA (Ward and Blackwelder, 1980).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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