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Late Cenozoic Stages and Molluscan Zones of the U.S. Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2017

Blake W. Blackwelder
Blake W. Blackwelder*
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U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. 20560
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Abstract

Pliocene to Holocene deposits of the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain from Maryland to Georgia are divided into four stages and four substages using molluscan biostratigraphic data. These divisions are the Wiltonian and Burwellian Stages (early Pliocene), Gouldian and Windyan Substages of the Colerainian Stage (late Pliocene to early Pleistocene), and Myrtlean and Yongesian Substages of the Longian Stage (late Pleistocene to Holocene). These stages may be recognized from Florida to as far north as Massachusetts and will facilitate correlation with other regions.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 55 , Issue S12: The Paleontological Society Memoir 12: Late Cenozoic Stages and Molluscan Zones of the U.S. Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain , September 1981 , pp. 1 - 34
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Copyright © 1981, The Society of Economic 

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