Yorktown Formation

Geological Formation in the United States

Yorktown Formation

Summary

The Yorktown Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in the Coastal Plain of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It is overconsolidated and highly fossiliferous.

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