Usage:
/Woodstock Member of Nanjemoy Formation (VA*,MD*)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Woodstock Granite of Williams and Darton (1892) in MD.]
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Eocene, early*
Ypresian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from old estate a short distance above Mathia Point of VA bank of the Potomac, King George Co., VA (Clark and Martin, 1901).
Principal reference section (described by Clark and Martin, 1901, p. 70, section IX): USGS Locality 26396, at center of bluff at Woodstock, VA, on right bank of Potomac River 1.65 mi above Mathias Point, Mathias Point 7.5-min quadrangle, King George Co., VA (Ward, 1985).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin*
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