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Geologic Unit: Tuckahoe

Usage:

Tuckahoe Group (VA)
Tuckahoe Group of Newark Supergroup (VA)
Tuckahoe Formation of Newark Supergroup (VA)


Subunits:

Informal Boscabel boulder beds, lower barren beds, productive coal measures; Vinita beds


Geologic age:

Triassic, Late
Carnian, early


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

Not designated. Exposed in shafts and mines along Tuckahoe Creek near Gayton, Goochland Co., VA (Shaler and Woodworth, 1899).


AAPG geologic province:

Piedmont-Blue Ridge province
Deep Run basin
Richmond 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 ([ ]).