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Volume: 57 (1973)

Issue: 9. (September)

First Page: 1826

Last Page: 1826

Title: Age of Some Neogene Formations, Atlantic Coastal Plains, United States and Mexico: ABSTRACT

Author(s): W. H. Akers, P. E. Koeppel

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

Calcareous nannoplankton indicate a middle Pliocene age for the Yorktown, Jackson Bluff, Concepcion, and Agueguexquite Formations and for unnamed beds near Sayula, Mexico. Planktonic Foraminifera are additional evidence for a younger age than formerly assigned to these beds.

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