Table 1 



. Upper Cretaceous to Holocene stratigraphic units of 





southern North Carolina. 





Period 



Epoch 



Formation-^ 



Chronostratigraphic units 

 (Brown, Miller, 

 and Swain, 1972) 





Holocene 



Ocean Forest Peat 







Princess Ann 



Quaternary 



Pleistocene 



Talbot 



Wicomico 



Okefenokee 



Undifferentiated rocks of 

 post-Miocene age 







Waccamaw 





Pliocene 



Dupl in-Yorktown 









Rocks of late Miocene age 





Miocene 



Pungo River 



Rocks of middle Miocene 



Tertiary 







age 



Oligocene 



Unnamed 



Rocks of Oligocene age 







Rocks of Claiborne age 





Eocene 



Castle Hayne 



Rocks of Sabine age 



Paleocene 



Beaufort 



Rocks of Midway age 



Cretaceous 





Pee Dee 



Cretaceous unit A 



•'^Based on North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development 

 (1958), Stuckey and Conrad (1958), Richards (1967), and Campbell, et al. 

 (1975). 



