Usage:
Wildwood Member of Kirkwood Formation (NJ*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary (Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type section] (subsurface): cable tool drillhole on southwestern end of barrier island near Wildwood, Lat. 38 deg. 57 min. 30 sec. N., Long. 74 deg. 52 min. 27 sec. W., Cape May Co., NJ (Owens and others, 1998).
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 ([ ]).