Usage:
No current usage.
(†Talbot Formation of Columbia Group (MD*,NC*,SC*,VA*), or †Talbot Formation (FL*,GA*), abandoned. Considered a geomorphic feature, Talbot terrace.)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene or Holocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Talbot Co., eastern shore of MD (Shattuck, 1901).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
Florida platform*
South Georgia sedimentary province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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