No current usage.
(†Wilmington beds (informal) (NC) replaced with Castle Hayne marl and Trent marl. See Castle Hayne and Trent.)
Tertiary
Eocene
Miocene
Exposures at Wilmington, western New Hanover Co., southeastern NC (Dall, 1898).
Atlantic Coast basin
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